La empleada pesa el paquete.

the package

Breakdown of La empleada pesa el paquete.

• la empleada: the employee
• pesar: to weigh a parcel

Questions & Answers about La empleada pesa el paquete.

Why is it la empleada and not el empleado?

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.

Why do we use la with empleada and el with paquete?

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.

What form of the verb is pesa?

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.

Does pesar mean to weigh as in measure the weight of something, or to have a certain weight?