El odio daña la confianza.

Hatred damages trust.

Breakdown of El odio daña la confianza.

• la confianza: the trust
• dañar: to damage
• el odio: the hatred

Questions & Answers about El odio daña la confianza.

Why does the sentence use el and la? Why not just odio daña confianza?

In Spanish, articles are used much more often than in English.

Here, el odio and la confianza are both being used in a general sense:

• el odio = hatred, hate in general
• la confianza = trust / confidence in general

So El odio daña la confianza means something like Hatred damages trust or Hate harms trust.

Leaving out the articles would sound unnatural in normal Spanish.

Why is it el odio if odio ends in -o? Is it masculine?

Yes, odio is a masculine noun, so it takes el:

• el odio
• un odio profundo

A lot of Spanish nouns ending in -o are masculine, so this follows a very common pattern.

Why is it la confianza? Is confianza feminine?

Yes. Confianza is a feminine noun, so it takes la:

• la confianza
• mucha confianza

Many nouns ending in -a are feminine, and confianza follows that pattern.

What form is daña?