La contingencia cambia el plan familiar de emergencia.

The contingency changes the family emergency plan.

Breakdown of La contingencia cambia el plan familiar de emergencia.

• cambiar: to change
• el plan familiar de emergencia: the family emergency plan
• la contingencia: the contingency

Questions & Answers about La contingencia cambia el plan familiar de emergencia.

Why does the sentence start with la in La contingencia?

Because contingencia is a feminine singular noun, so it takes the feminine singular definite article la.

• el = masculine singular
• la = feminine singular
• los / las = plural

So la contingencia means the contingency.

Why is it cambia and not cambian or cambiar?

Cambia is the third-person singular form of the verb cambiar in the present tense.

The subject is la contingencia, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• yo cambio
• tú cambias
• él / ella / usted cambia

So La contingencia cambia... means The contingency changes...

Is cambiar being used transitively here?