El recurso de reposición sigue la vía administrativa.

It is a legal/administrative term in Spain. A recurso is an appeal or formal challenge against an administrative decision, and de reposición specifies the type of appeal.

So recurso de reposición is not just any appeal: it is a particular kind of administrative appeal made to the same authority that issued the original decision, asking it to reconsider.

This is a set phrase, so it is best learned as one legal expression rather than translating each word separately every time.

Because de + noun is a very common way in Spanish to create fixed legal or technical expressions.

Here, reposición is a noun meaning something like reconsideration / restoration / replacement, depending on context. In legal Spanish, recurso de reposición is the established name of this procedure.

So this is not a free, everyday phrase. It is a fixed legal label.

Here sigue comes from seguir and means something like:

• follows
• continues along
• proceeds through

In this sentence, it does not mean keeps on in the everyday sense of continuing an action, like sigue hablando = he keeps talking.

Instead, it means that the appeal goes through or belongs to the administrative route/process.

Because seguir can take a direct object in Spanish.

So:

• seguir un camino = to follow a path
• seguir un procedimiento = to follow a procedure
• seguir una vía = to follow a route/process

That is why la vía administrativa comes directly after the verb, with no a, por, or other preposition.

Vía literally means way, route, or channel. In legal and administrative language, vía administrativa means the administrative route or administrative process, as opposed to going to court.

So in this sentence it refers to handling the matter within the administration, using administrative procedures, rather than moving straight to the judicial route.

Because it refers to a specific, recognised route: the administrative route.

In Spanish, articles are often used where English might be more flexible. Here la vía administrativa is a known institutional concept, so the definite article sounds natural and expected.

Similarly, legal Spanish often uses the article with fixed terms:

• la vía judicial
• la administración
• el procedimiento
• el recurso

Yes. Administrativa is the feminine singular form of the adjective administrativo.

It agrees with vía, which is a feminine singular noun:

• la vía administrativa
• not la vía administrativo

This is standard adjective agreement in Spanish:

• masculine singular: administrativo
• feminine singular: administrativa
• masculine plural: administrativos
• feminine plural: administrativas

It follows the normal Spanish pattern:

• subject: El recurso de reposición
• verb: sigue
• object/complement: la vía administrativa

This is a straightforward subject + verb + object sentence.

Because the sentence is formal and legal, the wording is quite compact and impersonal, but the structure itself is not unusual.

Not usually as the best translation in this context.

In everyday Spanish, seguir often means to continue:

• Sigue estudiando = He keeps studying

But here the idea is more like:

• to follow
• to proceed by
• to go through

So a translation with continue could mislead the learner into thinking the focus is on duration, when the real idea is the route or procedure being followed.

Not really. It sounds formal, legal, and administrative.

A native speaker would expect to see it in places like:

• official letters
• legal notices
• administrative resolutions
• procedural explanations

In everyday conversation, someone might explain it more simply, for example by saying that the matter is dealt with through administrative channels or can be appealed within the administration.

Yes. In general Spanish, recurso can mean:

• resource
• means
• recourse
• appeal in legal contexts

So the meaning depends heavily on context.

In this sentence, because of de reposición, it is clearly the legal meaning: appeal.

That is a good example of why learners should be careful with Spanish words that look familiar to English speakers but have several meanings.

Because recurso de reposición is a fixed noun phrase, and it appears together right after the article El:

• El recurso de reposición = the subject

Then comes the verb:

• sigue

Then comes the object:

• la vía administrativa

So the sentence breaks naturally into these parts:

• El recurso de reposición / sigue / la vía administrativa

That structure makes it clear that de reposición modifies recurso, not vía or the verb.