a que tampoco...

Question

I have spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out what this expression means. Can anyone help me here?

Answer 1

A que tampoco means I bet you + negative verb...either.

It's an idiomatic expression, which can be used alone or in a subordinate clause.

A que tampoco vendrá a la escuela hoy (I bet you she won't come to school today either).

A que tampoco is usually preceded by a phrase like Te apuesto . The verb is apostar a algo. So you would need to combine this phrase with a verb that is normally followed by the preposition "a" for this to work.

A complete phrase would be: Te apuesto a que tampoco vendrá mañana a la escuela.

I hope this helps!

..another one for my notes :) - island_fever, Oct 2, 2012

ah nice, I didn't think of that :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 2, 2012

thanks francobolllo! - t8805jg, Oct 6, 2012

Answer 2

Do you have more context?

tampoco means neither or not either

que without an accent means that

but to get the whole meaning we really need context.

not sure how this posting thing here works kiwi girl (i'm 60 yrs old after all!). But the complete sentence is "A que tampoco ha hecho nada la communidad nativo!" It's in a spanish text. - t8805jg, Oct 3, 2012

Answer 3

a que tampoco

Some context is needed because this could easily be just a phrase in the middle of a sentence without having anything to do with "I bet."

However, the idom for "Te apuesto que ..." ("I bet...") is just "A que...." "Tampoco" has nothing to do with the idiom.

We can just as easily say "A que no vendrá a la escuela hoy tampoco" as well as "A que tampoco vendrá a la escuela hoy." In this case "tampoco" just happens to follow the idiom.