Word
El curador explica la exposición en la galería.
Meaning
The art curator explains the exhibition in the gallery.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Breakdown of El curador explica la exposición en la galería.
en
in
explicar
to explain
la exposición
the art exhibition
la galería
the art gallery
Questions & Answers about El curador explica la exposición en la galería.
Why are there articles in front of all three nouns: el curador, la exposición, la galería?
Spanish uses definite articles (el, la, los, las) more often than English does. In this sentence, each noun is referring to a specific person or thing:
- el curador = the curator
- la exposición = the exhibition
- la galería = the gallery
So the articles are completely natural here. In English, you might sometimes drop the in similar contexts, but in Spanish it is usually kept.
Why is it el curador but la exposición and la galería?
Because Spanish nouns have grammatical gender.
- curador is masculine, so it takes el
- exposición is feminine, so it takes la
- galería is feminine, so it also takes la
This is grammatical gender, not necessarily biological gender. For a person, curador is masculine; if the curator is a woman, you would usually say la curadora in Latin American Spanish.
What tense is explica?