Spanish C1 · Day 24
Day 24: Papel de la sociedad civil en la adaptación climática — Genitive ambiguity
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Genitive ambiguity
- Reading: La ambivalencia de la adaptación climática: entre Estado, mercado y sociedad civil
- Try it yourself
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Grammar point: Genitive ambiguity
At the C1 level, mastering the ambiguous complement with «de» is key to precise academic writing and speaking. Nouns such as «el apoyo», «la crítica» or «la evaluación» plus «de» can mark the actor or the target, and this double reading is a frequent source of confusion. It lets you link two nouns in a compact way, replacing a fuller clause (like «que presta», «que recibe») and the roles it would state.
Key vocabulary (8 of 18 words)
- la adaptación climática – climate adaptation
- el fortalecimiento de la resiliencia – promotion of resilience
- la mitigación – mitigation (of climate change impacts)
- la iniciativa de base – bottom-up initiative
- el desarrollo de capacidades – capacity building
- la articulación de actores – stakeholder involvement
- concebir algo – to conceptualize, design something
- implicarse – to get involved, contribute
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