Breakdown of Mañana la entrenadora hará un entrenamiento menos intenso para que descansemos.
mañana
tomorrow
nosotros
we
descansar
to rest
hacer
to do
Questions & Answers about Mañana la entrenadora hará un entrenamiento menos intenso para que descansemos.
Why is it la entrenadora and not just entrenadora or una entrenadora?
Spanish normally needs an article before a singular countable noun, even for professions.
- la entrenadora = the coach (someone both speaker and listener already know: our coach).
- una entrenadora = a coach (one coach, but not a specific one in the listener’s mind).
- Just entrenadora (without any article) would be wrong here in standard Spanish. You can drop the article with professions only after the verb ser (e.g. Ella es entrenadora, She is a coach), not when you use it as a standalone subject.
Why is entrenadora feminine, but entrenamiento is masculine?
Grammatical gender in Spanish is partly logical and partly arbitrary:
entrenadora / entrenador is a person word, so the ending changes depending on the person’s gender:
- la entrenadora = the (female) coach
- el entrenador = the (male) coach
entrenamiento is an abstract noun (a thing, not a person). Its gender is fixed by convention:
- el entrenamiento (always masculine), regardless of who is training.
So the coach’s gender changes the noun (entrenador/a), but the training itself (entrenamiento) is always masculine.
Why do we say hará un entrenamiento instead of using the verb entrenar, like entrenará?