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Phrase · 🔁 Reformulating and summarising

Vendrán unas cien personas; mejor dicho, unas ochenta.

About a hundred people will come; or rather, about eighty.

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Why every word is where it is

Vendrán1verbwill comevenir · future · 3rd pl.unas2determinersomeuno · fem. · pl. · indefiniteciendeterminera hundredpersonasnounpeoplepersona · fem. · pl.;mejor3adverb(mejor dicho) or ratherbiendichoverb(mejor dicho) or ratherdecir · participle · masc. · sing.,unasdeterminersomeuno · fem. · pl. · indefiniteochentadeterminereighty.
  • Vendrán → personas: subject
  • unas → personas: f. pl.

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Irregular future of venir: vendr-. Simple future →
  2. 2
    unos / unas + number = about, roughly.
  3. 3
    mejor dicho = or rather: corrects what you have just said. Discourse markers C1 →