El mecanismo mueve la pared.

The mechanism moves the wall.

Breakdown of El mecanismo mueve la pared.

• la pared: the wall
• mover: to move
• el mecanismo: the mechanism

Questions & Answers about El mecanismo mueve la pared.

What verb form is mueve, and why does it come from mover?

Mueve is the third-person singular present tense of mover.

The subject here is el mecanismo, which is singular, so Spanish uses the he/she/it form:

• yo muevo
• tú mueves
• él/ella mueve

Also, mover is a stem-changing verb. Its o changes to ue in stressed forms:

• muevo
• mueves
• mueve
• movemos
• movéis
• mueven

So mueve is not irregular in a random way; it follows a common Spanish pattern.

Why is it el mecanismo but la pared?

Because Spanish nouns have grammatical gender.

• mecanismo is masculine, so it takes el
• pared is feminine, so it takes la

This does not mean the objects are biologically male or female. It is just part of how Spanish grammar works.

How do I know that pared is feminine if it does not end in -a?