Gracias, el informe está claro.

Thanks, the report is clear.

Breakdown of Gracias, el informe está claro.

• estar: to be
• el informe: the report
• claro: clear
• gracias: thank you; thanks

Questions & Answers about Gracias, el informe está claro.

Why is it el informe and not just informe?

In Spanish, when you are talking about a specific thing, you usually use the definite article, like the in English.

So el informe = the report.

Leaving out el would usually sound incomplete here. Spanish uses articles more often than English does.

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Why is informe masculine? It doesn’t end in -o.

Not all masculine nouns end in -o, and not all feminine nouns end in -a.
Informe is simply a masculine noun, so it takes el:

• el informe
• un informe

This is something you often have to learn noun by noun.

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Why is it está claro instead of es claro?