La empleada pesa el paquete.

Because empleada is the feminine form of empleado. It refers to a female employee.

• el empleado = the male employee
• la empleada = the female employee

So this sentence tells you the worker is a woman.

Spanish nouns have grammatical gender, and the article has to match the noun.

• empleada is feminine, so it takes la
• paquete is masculine, so it takes el

This is about grammatical gender, not whether the package is somehow masculine in real life.

Pesa is the third-person singular present tense of pesar.

That form can mean:

• he weighs
• she weighs
• it weighs
• you weigh (formal usted)

In this sentence, the subject is la empleada, so pesa means she weighs.

It can mean both, depending on how it is used.

In this sentence:

• La empleada pesa el paquete.
• Here pesar means to weigh something / to measure its weight

But Spanish also uses pesar to mean to weigh a certain amount:

• El paquete pesa dos kilos.
• The package weighs two kilos.

So the same verb works in both ways.

Because el paquete is a thing, not a person.

The personal a is usually used before a specific human direct object:

• Veo a la empleada. = I see the employee.

But with things, you normally do not use it:

• La empleada pesa el paquete.

Since the package is an object, not a person, there is no a.

Yes. This is the standard Spanish word order:

• Subject + verb + direct object
• La empleada + pesa + el paquete

That is the most natural, neutral order for a basic statement.

Spanish can change word order for emphasis, but this version is the plain, ordinary one.

Sometimes, depending on context, yes.

By itself, empleada usually means female employee.
But in some contexts, especially older or more specific ones, people may use it for a domestic worker, especially in phrases like:

• empleada doméstica = maid / housekeeper / domestic worker

Without extra context, though, la empleada is best understood as the female employee.

The Spanish present tense can mean different things, just like in English.

La empleada pesa el paquete can mean:

• she is weighing the package now
• she weighs the package regularly / as part of her job
• a simple present statement about what happens

The exact meaning depends on context.

Because it is the direct object of the verb pesa.

The sentence structure tells you:

• la empleada = the one doing the action
• pesa = weighs
• el paquete = the thing receiving the action

So the employee is performing the action, and the package is what gets weighed.

It means The employee weighs the package.

Spanish relies a lot on word order in simple sentences like this. The first noun phrase, la empleada, is the subject, and el paquete comes after the verb as the object.

If you wanted to say The package weighs the employee, you would need a different structure, and it would sound very odd logically anyway.

A simple English-friendly guide is:

• empleada ≈ em-pleh-AH-dah
• paquete ≈ pah-KEH-teh
• pesa ≈ PEH-sah

The stress falls on:

• empleAda
• paQUEte
• PEsa

Also, Spanish vowels are usually clear and pure:

• e sounds like eh
• a sounds like ah

Normally, no. In this sentence, the articles sound natural and expected:

• La empleada pesa el paquete.

Leaving them out would usually sound incomplete or unnatural in standard Spanish:

• Empleada pesa paquete ❌

Spanish uses articles more often than English does, so learners often need to get used to keeping them.

You would change the subject noun and article to the masculine form:

• El empleado pesa el paquete.

Only the noun and article change:

• la empleada → el empleado

The verb pesa stays the same because it still agrees with a third-person singular subject.