Question regarding La Palabra del Día - Indudable
Que Lionel Messi sea el mejor futbolista en el mundo es indudable. - It's unquestionable that Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world.
I thought since the independent clause "Es indudable" expresses certainty, the dependent clause would use "es" instead of the subjunctive "sea".
1 Answer
This sentence can be expressed with either indicative or subjunctive. The writer here has basically said: That Lionel messi may be the best ............... using subjunctive.
To state it more factually you could also say: That Lionel Messi is the best ............... using indicative.
The end result is the same but the nuance created by using subjunctive tells us that the speaker is not completely comitted to idea that Lionel Messi is the best.
The sentence structure may also have to vary between subjunctive and indicative.
