Questions & Answers about La estimación es más alta.
La is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the.
It is used because estimación is a feminine singular noun, so the article has to match it:
- la estimación = the estimate
- una estimación = an estimate
Spanish usually uses articles more consistently than English, so la estimación sounds natural where English might simply say the estimate.
In Spanish, every noun has a grammatical gender. Estimación is feminine because nouns ending in -ción are almost always feminine.
So you get:
Other common feminine -ción nouns include:
- la información
- la situación
- la comparación
This is grammatical gender, not biological gender.