Learn Hardcore Spanish (Latin America): Mi prima escribió un poema sobre la soledad que se siente después de un concierto ruidoso. - My cousin wrote a poem about the loneliness you feel after a noisy concert.

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Mi prima escribió un poema sobre la soledad que se siente después de un concierto ruidoso.

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My cousin wrote a poem about the loneliness you feel after a noisy concert.

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Breakdown of Mi prima escribió un poema sobre la soledad que se siente después de un concierto ruidoso.

Why is it mi prima and not mi primo? How do I know which one to use?

In Spanish, many family words change form depending on gender:

So mi prima means my (female) cousin. If the cousin were male, the sentence would be:

You choose prima or primo based on the cousin’s gender, not the speaker’s gender.

Why is it escribió and not something like escribía or escribe?

Escribió is the preterite tense of escribir (to write), third person singular (he/she/you formal).

escribió = she wrote (completed action in the past)
escribía = she was writing / she used to write (ongoing or habitual in the past)
escribe = she writes (present)

In this sentence, escribió is used because it refers to a specific, completed action: my cousin wrote a poem (at some point in the past).

Why is it un poema and not una poema? It ends in -a, so shouldn’t it be feminine?