La empresa ofrece capacitación.

The company offers workplace training.

Breakdown of La empresa ofrece capacitación.

• ofrecer: to offer
• la empresa: the company
• la capacitación: the workplace training

Questions & Answers about La empresa ofrece capacitación.

Why is it la empresa and not el empresa?

Because empresa is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it takes the feminine article la.

• la empresa = the company
• una empresa = a company

This is something you mostly have to learn with the noun itself. Even though empresa ends in -a, which often signals feminine gender, that is not the reason by itself; the important point is that the noun is grammatically feminine.

What does ofrece mean, and what verb does it come from?

Ofrece comes from the verb ofrecer, which means to offer.

In this sentence, ofrece is the third-person singular present tense form:

• yo ofrezco = I offer
• tú ofreces = you offer
• él / ella / usted ofrece = he / she / you offer

So La empresa ofrece capacitación literally means The company offers training.

Why is it ofrece and not oferta?