La psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño.

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Breakdown of La psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño.

• querer: to want
• el sueño: the dream
• la psicóloga: the psychologist

Questions & Answers about La psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño.

Why is it la psicóloga and not el psicólogo?

In Spanish, many nouns referring to people have a masculine and a feminine form:

• el psicólogo = the (male) psychologist
• la psicóloga = the (female) psychologist

The sentence La psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño is talking about a female psychologist, so the article and the noun are both feminine:

• la (feminine singular article)
• psicóloga (feminine singular noun)

Why do we use la before psicóloga? Could I just say Psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño?

You normally need an article before a singular countable noun:

• La psicóloga = The psychologist (specific person)
• Una psicóloga = A psychologist (not specific)

Psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño sounds incomplete in Spanish, almost like saying “Psychologist wants to analyze my dream” in English without the or a.

The only common case where you can drop the article is in things like:

• Soy psicóloga. = I am a psychologist.

But when you use the noun as the subject like in your sentence, you normally keep the article:

• La psicóloga quiere analizar mi sueño. ✅

How do you pronounce psicóloga? Is the p really there?