La audiometría verbal evalúa la comprensión del habla.

La is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the.

It is used because audiometría is a feminine singular noun:

• la audiometría
• not el audiometría

So La audiometría verbal means the verbal/speech audiometry.

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• audiometría verbal = verbal audiometry / speech audiometry

This is the normal word order in Spanish:

• noun + adjective

English often does the opposite:

• adjective + noun

Here, verbal refers to speech or spoken language.

In medical or hearing contexts, audiometría verbal usually means testing how well someone understands spoken words, not just sounds in general.

So although verbal looks like English verbal, in this context it is often best understood as:

• speech
• spoken-language
• word-recognition-related

Evalúa has a written accent because Spanish spelling rules require it.

The verb is evaluar (to evaluate), and in the él/ella/usted form of the present tense, it becomes evalúa.

The accent helps show the correct stress:

• e-va-LÚ-a

Without the accent, it would suggest a different stress pattern, which would be incorrect.

The subject is La audiometría verbal.

So the structure is:

• La audiometría verbal = subject
• evalúa = verb
• la comprensión del habla = direct object

In English:

• Speech audiometry = subject
• evaluates = verb
• speech comprehension = object

The Spanish present tense can often correspond to the English simple present:

• evalúa = evaluates

Depending on context, Spanish present tense can sometimes also sound like English is evaluating, but in a general definition or scientific statement like this one, the best translation is the simple present:

• Speech audiometry evaluates...

This is because the sentence states a general fact.

Comprensión means comprehension or understanding.

The article la is used because comprensión is a feminine singular noun:

• la comprensión

Spanish often uses the definite article where English might or might not use the. Here, la comprensión del habla means:

• the comprehension of speech
• more naturally in English: speech comprehension or understanding speech

Del is the contraction of:

• de + el = del

But this raises a good question: why el habla if habla usually looks feminine?

In this case, habla is a feminine noun, but it takes the masculine article el in the singular because it begins with a stressed a sound:

• el habla
• las hablas (plural returns to feminine article)

So:

• de el habla becomes del habla

This is similar to:

• el agua
• el águila

Even though the article is el, the noun is still feminine.

Habla here is a noun, not a verb.

Compare:

• hablar = to speak / speaking as an infinitive
• el habla = speech

So:

• la comprensión del habla = the comprehension of speech
• not the comprehension of to speak

Spanish often uses a noun where English may also use a noun:

• speech
• language
• hearing
• understanding

A helpful pronunciation is:

au-dyo-me-TREE-a

More roughly in syllables:

• au-dio-me-trí-a

The stress is on trí because of the written accent:

• au-dio-me-TRÍ-a

In many Latin American accents, dio may sound like dyo.

A helpful approximation is:

eh-bah-LOO-ah or eh-vah-LOO-ah, depending on accent

Syllables:

• e-va-lú-a

The stress is on lú:

• e-va-LÚ-a

In many Latin American varieties, v and b sound very similar, so eva- may sound close to eba-.

Yes, it is a very natural expression in medical, speech, hearing, and language-related contexts.

It literally means:

• comprehension of speech

A few related expressions are:

• comprensión oral = listening comprehension / oral comprehension
• percepción del habla = speech perception
• reconocimiento del habla = speech recognition
• inteligibilidad del habla = speech intelligibility

So comprensión del habla is a normal and meaningful phrase, especially in audiology or speech-language contexts.

Yes, that could be possible in some contexts.

Both verbs are natural:

• evalúa = evaluates / assesses
• mide = measures

The difference is slight:

• evalúa sounds broader, like assessing or testing
• mide sounds more like quantifying or measuring

In technical writing, either may work depending on the exact meaning intended.

Normally, no. In a full standard sentence, you would usually keep the article:

• La audiometría verbal evalúa...

Omitting the article would sound incomplete or headline-like. Spanish often uses articles with general nouns more than English does.

So for a normal statement, La should stay.

Yes. The sentence sounds formal, technical, and natural for a medical or academic context.

Why it sounds formal:

• it uses a technical noun: audiometría
• it uses an abstract noun: comprensión
• it states a general fact in the present tense

This is exactly the kind of sentence you might see in:

• a textbook
• a medical report
• an audiology article
• a clinical explanation