Breakdown of La audioguía y la ficha técnica explican la acuarela sobre lienzo.
y
and
explicar
to explain
sobre
on
la acuarela
the watercolor
Questions & Answers about La audioguía y la ficha técnica explican la acuarela sobre lienzo.
Why is it la audioguía and not el audioguía?
Because audioguía is a feminine noun, so it takes la.
A common rule learners hear is that some feminine nouns beginning with a stressed a- sound use el in the singular, like el agua. But that does not apply here, because audioguía does not begin with a simple stressed a sound. It begins with the diphthong au-, and the stress falls later: au-dio-guí-a.
So the correct form is la audioguía.
Why is explican plural?
Because the subject is plural: La audioguía y la ficha técnica.
Spanish, like English, makes the verb agree with the subject. Since there are two things joined by y (and), the subject is plural, so the verb must also be plural:
- la audioguía = singular
- la ficha técnica = singular
- la audioguía y la ficha técnica = plural
- therefore: explican = they explain
What does ficha técnica mean here?