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Phrase · 🪶 Hedging and softening

Yo diría que el problema es de comunicación.

I'd say the problem is one of communication.

C1giving a tentative opinionAudio · coming soon

Why every word is where it is

YopronounI1st sing. · subjectdiría1verbI would saydecir · conditional · 1st sing.queconjunctionthateldeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiteproblemanounproblemmasc. · sing.esverbisser · present · 3rd sing.de2prepositionof, fromcomunicaciónnouncommunicationfem. · sing..
  • Yo → diría: subject
  • diría → que: decir que
  • es → problema: subject

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Conditional of modesty: yo diría que presents your view as tentative. Modal and stylistic uses of tenses →
  2. 2
    ser de + noun = to be a matter of: es de comunicación.