Somos nosotros quienes + 1 plural or 3 plural?

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Somos nosotros quienes + 1 plural or 3 plural?

Hola

Cual es correcta?

1. No fuimos nosotras quienes hicimos caer a esa mujer.

2. No fuimos nosotras quienes hicieron caer a esa mujer.


Cual es la regla? #3 con 1 plural y #4 con 3 plural.


3. Somos nosotros quienes podemos hacer la diferencia.

We're the ones who can make a difference.


4. Seamos nosotros quienes se hagan ricos con esto.

So it might as well be us who get rich on it.


Gracias de antemano

Asked 2 months ago
InmaNative Spanish expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hola Paul

In this type of sentence where the subject is implicit (nosotros) and is using a relative, in theory, the verb should be using the first person plural. However, it's not uncommon to use the 3rd person plural sometimes. The RAE has a chapter within the title "concordancia" that talks about this. With partitives for example it's common to find the 3rd person plural conjugation with nosotros. The RAE gives this example:

"Éramos los únicos que no trataban de halagarlo."

You can read a bit more about this here from the RAE page (it's in 33.6n and 33.6ñ)

Saludos cordiales

Inma

Somos nosotros quienes + 1 plural or 3 plural?

Hola

Cual es correcta?

1. No fuimos nosotras quienes hicimos caer a esa mujer.

2. No fuimos nosotras quienes hicieron caer a esa mujer.


Cual es la regla? #3 con 1 plural y #4 con 3 plural.


3. Somos nosotros quienes podemos hacer la diferencia.

We're the ones who can make a difference.


4. Seamos nosotros quienes se hagan ricos con esto.

So it might as well be us who get rich on it.


Gracias de antemano

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