Leemos el contrato de adopción y el consentimiento informado.

In Spanish, the subject pronoun is often omitted because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

Here, leemos is the first person plural form of leer, so it already means we read or we are reading. Because of that, nosotros is not necessary unless you want extra emphasis or contrast.

So:

• Leemos... = normal, natural Spanish
• Nosotros leemos... = we read..., with extra emphasis

Leemos comes from the verb leer, meaning to read.

It is:

• present tense
• first person plural
• from the verb leer

The pattern is:

• leo = I read
• lees = you read
• lee = he/she reads
• leemos = we read
• leéis = you all read (Spain)
• leen = they read

So leemos means we read.

Yes. In Spanish, the simple present often covers both ideas.

So leemos el contrato... can mean:

• we read the contract
• we are reading the contract

If you specifically want to stress the action in progress, Spanish can also use:

• Estamos leyendo... = we are reading...

But in many everyday situations, leemos is perfectly natural.

Both vowels are pronounced. Spanish does not reduce them to one sound the way English sometimes might.

So leemos is pronounced roughly:

• le-E-mos

It has three syllables:

• le
• e
• mos

The stress falls on e in the middle: le-É-mos.

Spanish often uses de + noun where English uses a noun placed before another noun.

So English might say:

• adoption contract

But Spanish normally says:

• contrato de adopción

This structure is very common:

• casa de campo
• centro de salud
• permiso de conducir

So de adopción explains what kind of contract it is.

Because the sentence contains two separate noun phrases:

• el contrato de adopción
• el consentimiento informado

Repeating el makes it clear that these are two different things being read.

Spanish often repeats the article in this kind of structure, especially when the two nouns are separate items rather than one combined idea.

So:

• el contrato de adopción y el consentimiento informado = clear and natural

If you remove the second el, the sentence may sound less clear or less natural in many contexts.

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• consentimiento informado

not normally:

• informado consentimiento

Also, consentimiento informado is a fixed and very common legal/medical expression meaning the standard idea of informed consent. In this phrase, putting the adjective after the noun is the normal order.

Because informado agrees with consentimiento, which is:

• masculine
• singular

Spanish adjectives usually agree with the noun they describe in gender and number.

So:

• el consentimiento informado = masculine singular
• la decisión informada = feminine singular
• los consentimientos informados = masculine plural
• las decisiones informadas = feminine plural

Normally, y means and.

It changes to e before words that begin with an i sound:

• padre e hijo
• España e Italia

But here the next word is el, which begins with an e sound, not an i sound, so it stays y:

• ... y el consentimiento informado

So e would be incorrect here.

The accent mark shows where the stress goes: a-dop-CIÓN.

Without the accent, standard Spanish stress rules would make it sound different. The written accent tells you the final syllable is stressed.

This is especially useful because words ending in -n, -s, or a vowel are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable unless an accent mark shows otherwise.

So:

• adopción = stress on -ción

Yes, if you are learning Spanish from Spain, the letter c before e or i is usually pronounced like the th in think.

So in Spain, you would hear:

• consentimiento with a th sound at the start of ce
• adopción with a th sound in -ción

Very roughly:

• consentimiento ≈ kon-sen-ti-MYEN-toh, but with ce pronounced like the
• adopción ≈ a-dop-THYON

In much of Latin America, those same c sounds are pronounced like s instead.