La persona adoptante confirma la adopción.

to confirm

Breakdown of La persona adoptante confirma la adopción.

• la adopción: the adoption
• la persona adoptante: the adopter

Questions & Answers about La persona adoptante confirma la adopción.

Why is it la persona if the adopter could be male?

Because persona is a grammatically feminine noun in Spanish, no matter the actual sex or gender of the person being referred to.

So you say:

• la persona adoptante = the adopting person

Even if that person is a man, Spanish still uses la persona. Grammatical gender and real-life gender do not always match.

Why doesn’t adoptante change to adoptanta?

Because adoptante is one of many Spanish words ending in -nte that usually keep the same form for masculine and feminine.

So you can have:

• el adoptante
• la adoptante
• la persona adoptante

The article or surrounding words show the gender when needed, not the ending of adoptante itself.

Is adoptante a noun or an adjective here?

Here it is functioning like an adjective modifying persona:

• la persona adoptante = the adopting person

But in legal or formal language, adoptante can also be used as a noun by itself:

• el adoptante
• la adoptante

So it can behave as either a noun or an adjective depending on the sentence.