Leemos la factura y el contrato.

Leemos is the first-person plural form of leer (to read) in the present indicative.

So it means:

• we read
• or we are reading

Spanish often uses the same present-tense form for both the simple present and the present continuous, depending on context.

Because Spanish usually omits subject pronouns when they are not needed.

The ending -emos already tells you the subject is we. So:

• Leemos la factura y el contrato. = We read / are reading the invoice and the contract.

You could say Nosotros leemos la factura y el contrato, but that would usually add emphasis or contrast, such as:

• Nosotros leemos la factura y el contrato, pero ellos no.
  We read the invoice and the contract, but they don’t.

Because Spanish nouns have grammatical gender.

• factura is feminine → la factura
• contrato is masculine → el contrato

The article has to match the gender of the noun:

• el for singular masculine nouns
• la for singular feminine nouns

This is about grammar, not about biological sex.

In Spanish, it is very normal to use the article with each noun:

• la factura y el contrato

This is more natural than trying to use just one article for both, especially since the nouns have different genders.

Because one noun is feminine (la factura) and the other is masculine (el contrato), each noun needs its own article.

Because the verb agrees with the subject, not with the objects.

Here, the subject is an implied we:

• (Nosotros) leemos ...

So the verb is first-person plural: leemos

The things being read — la factura y el contrato — are the direct objects. They do not control the verb form.

In this form, leemos is fairly straightforward, but leer does have some spelling and accent changes in other forms.

For example:

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

A common thing learners notice is that leemos has two e’s together. That is normal, because it comes from the stem le- plus the ending -emos.

Because it follows normal Spanish stress rules, so no written accent is needed.

Leemos is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable:

• le-E-mos

Since it ends in -s, Spanish normally stresses the second-to-last syllable, and that is exactly what happens here. So no accent mark is necessary.

A careful Spain Spanish pronunciation would be roughly:

• leh-EH-mos la fak-TOO-ra ee el kon-TRA-to

A few notes:

• leemos has three syllables: le-e-mos
• factura is stressed on tu: fac-TU-ra
• contrato is stressed on tra: con-TRA-to
• y is usually pronounced like ee when it means and

In most of Spain, the c in contrato is a normal hard k sound, and the c in factura is also k because it comes before t.

Normally, y means and.

Spanish changes y to e only before words that begin with an i sound, for easier pronunciation:

• padre e hijo = father and son
• España e Italia

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

• la factura y el contrato

Because la factura and el contrato are things, not people.

Spanish uses the personal a before a specific person (or sometimes a pet/personified being) when that person is a direct object:

• Veo a María. = I see María.

But with objects or things, you do not use a:

• Leemos la factura y el contrato.

So this sentence is completely normal without a.

Yes, but it depends on context.

Factura often means:

• invoice
• bill in a business or formal sense

It is commonly used for a document listing charges, products, or services.

But for a restaurant bill in everyday speech, Spanish often uses:

• la cuenta

So in this sentence, factura is usually best understood as invoice unless context suggests otherwise.

Yes. The Spanish present tense can often mean either:

• We read the invoice and the contract
• We are reading the invoice and the contract

Context tells you which one is more natural.

If you want to make the ongoing action especially clear, Spanish can also use:

• Estamos leyendo la factura y el contrato.

But leemos by itself can already express that idea in many situations.

Usually, the most natural version is:

• Leemos la factura y el contrato.

Since the nouns have different genders, Spanish normally keeps both articles.

If both nouns shared the same article and formed a close pair, you might sometimes see different patterns in other sentences, but here the standard and clearest choice is definitely:

• la factura y el contrato

This sentence is completely natural in Spain Spanish, and it is also standard in most other varieties of Spanish.

Nothing in Leemos la factura y el contrato is uniquely Spain-only. It is a broadly standard sentence.

If you were comparing varieties, the main difference would appear in other verb forms, such as vosotros leéis in Spain, but that does not affect this sentence because it uses we.

The structure is:

• Leemos = verb
• la factura y el contrato = direct object

So the pattern is:

• [Verb] + [direct object]

Spanish often allows this kind of structure because the subject is understood from the verb ending.

A fuller version would be:

• Nosotros leemos la factura y el contrato.

But in normal Spanish, the shorter version is more common.