El médico confirmó el embarazo.

Yes. El médico means the doctor.

Spanish uses definite and indefinite articles much like English:

• el médico = the doctor
• un médico = a doctor

So:

• El médico confirmó el embarazo. = The doctor confirmed the pregnancy.
• Un médico confirmó el embarazo. = A doctor confirmed the pregnancy.

In real context, el may refer to a specific doctor already known in the situation.

Both médico and doctor can refer to a doctor, but médico is very common for a medical doctor.

In Spain, médico often sounds a bit more specifically medical, while doctor is also used and understood. In many situations, either could work:

• El médico confirmó el embarazo.
• El doctor confirmó el embarazo.

A learner should simply know that médico is a very normal word for doctor.

The accent mark shows where the stress goes: MÉ-di-co.

Without the written accent, Spanish stress rules would make it sound wrong. The accent helps you pronounce it correctly.

So:

• médico → stress on the first syllable
• pronunciation: roughly MEH-dee-ko

Accent marks in Spanish are important because they can change pronunciation and sometimes meaning.

Confirmó is the preterite form of confirmar, meaning confirmed.

Here are the relevant forms:

• confirma = confirms / is confirming
• confirmó = confirmed
• confirmaba = was confirming / used to confirm

So El médico confirmó el embarazo presents the confirmation as a completed past event: the doctor confirmed it.

That makes sense if you are talking about a medical appointment or test result that happened and was completed.

It is third person singular in the preterite.

That means it goes with:

• él confirmó = he confirmed
• ella confirmó = she confirmed
• usted confirmó = you confirmed (formal)

In this sentence, the subject is El médico, so the verb is in third person singular:

• El médico confirmó...

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when the subject is already clear.

So instead of saying:

• Él confirmó el embarazo

Spanish can simply say:

• Confirmó el embarazo

And in your sentence, the subject is already stated explicitly:

• El médico confirmó el embarazo

Because the subject is clear, there is no need for él or ella.

Because embarazo is a masculine noun in Spanish, so it takes el.

• el embarazo = the pregnancy

Grammatical gender in Spanish does not always match real-world sex or gender. Even though pregnancy is associated with women, the noun embarazo is grammatically masculine.

This is just something you learn with the noun:

• un embarazo
• el embarazo

No, and this is a very important false friend.

• embarazo = pregnancy
• embarazada = pregnant
• embarrassed = avergonzado/a or tener vergüenza

So Estoy embarazada means I am pregnant, not I am embarrassed.

That is one of the most famous Spanish-English false-friend mistakes.

It is the direct object of the verb confirmó.

The structure is:

• El médico = subject
• confirmó = verb
• el embarazo = direct object

In other words, the doctor confirmed what?
Answer: the pregnancy

That is why el embarazo comes after the verb here.

Yes, but El médico confirmó el embarazo is the most neutral and natural order.

Basic Spanish word order is often:

• subject + verb + object

So:

• El médico confirmó el embarazo.

Other orders are possible for emphasis, but they are less neutral:

• El embarazo lo confirmó el médico. = It was the doctor who confirmed the pregnancy.
• Confirmó el embarazo el médico. = possible, but less common and more marked in tone

For a learner, the original sentence is the standard pattern to remember.

A simple approximation is:

el MEH-dee-ko kon-feer-MOH el em-ba-RA-tho
(in most of Spain, where z sounds like th in thin)

In many Latin American accents, the last word would sound more like:

em-ba-RA-so

A more careful breakdown for Spain:

• El → el
• médico → MEH-dee-ko
• confirmó → kon-feer-MOH
• el embarazo → el em-ba-RA-tho

The main stress points are:

• MÉdico
• confirmÓ
• embaRAzo

Yes. The sentence means the doctor confirmed the pregnancy, not that the doctor was pregnant.

The subject is El médico = the doctor.
The thing being confirmed is el embarazo = the pregnancy.

So the doctor is the person doing the confirming.

If you wanted to say The doctor was pregnant, you would need a very different sentence, for example:

• La médica estaba embarazada. = The female doctor was pregnant.

Yes, that is the usual change.

• El médico confirmó el embarazo. = The male doctor / the doctor confirmed the pregnancy.
• La médica confirmó el embarazo. = The female doctor confirmed the pregnancy.

In modern Spanish, médica is the standard feminine form for a female doctor.

Yes, but that is a different structure.

• El médico confirmó el embarazo. = The doctor confirmed the pregnancy.
• El médico confirmó que estaba embarazada. = The doctor confirmed that she was pregnant.

The first uses a noun phrase: el embarazo.
The second uses a full clause: que estaba embarazada.

Both are natural, but they focus on the idea in slightly different ways. The original sentence is compact and very common in medical contexts.