Los pagos fraccionados cambian la cuota diferencial.

Instalment tax payments change the final tax liability.

Breakdown of Los pagos fraccionados cambian la cuota diferencial.

• cambiar: to change
• la cuota diferencial: the final tax liability
• el pago fraccionado: the instalment tax payment

Questions & Answers about Los pagos fraccionados cambian la cuota diferencial.

Why does the sentence start with los?

Los is the masculine plural definite article, meaning the.

It is used because pagos is:

• a masculine noun
• plural

So:

• el pago = the payment
• los pagos = the payments

Spanish usually uses the definite article more often than English, especially when talking about something specific or a known category.

Why is it pagos fraccionados and not just pagos?

Fraccionados describes what kind of payments they are.

• pagos = payments
• fraccionados = split / divided into instalments

So pagos fraccionados means something like instalment payments or split payments.

In Spanish, adjectives often come after the noun, unlike in English:

• pagos fraccionados
• literally: payments split

Why does fraccionados end in -os?