El supervisor propone una mejora.

the improvement

Breakdown of El supervisor propone una mejora.

• el supervisor: the person overseeing the work
• proponer: to propose

Questions & Answers about El supervisor propone una mejora.

Why does the sentence start with El? Does it mean the?

Yes. El is the masculine singular definite article, so here it means the.

It is used because supervisor is a singular masculine noun:

• el supervisor = the supervisor

If the supervisor were female, you would normally say:

• la supervisora

Why is it supervisor and not supervisador or something similar?

Supervisor is the standard Spanish noun for supervisor. It is actually very close to the English word.

Many Spanish nouns ending in -or refer to a person who does an action:

• director
• doctor
• profesor
• supervisor

For a female person, Latin American Spanish often uses:

• la supervisora

So:

• el supervisor = a male supervisor / the supervisor
• la supervisora = a female supervisor / the supervisor

What form is propone?