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What person does revisamos refer to?
Why doesn’t the sentence say nosotros revisamos?
Because Spanish often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already makes the subject clear.
- Revisamos already tells you it means we
- So nosotros is usually unnecessary
You could say Nosotros revisamos... for emphasis, contrast, or clarity, but in normal Spanish it is very common to leave it out.
Does revisamos mean we review or we reviewed?
Why are there definite articles here: la carta and el historial?
Spanish uses definite articles more often than English.
Here, la and el are used because the sentence refers to specific items:
- la carta de presentación
- el historial profesional
Also, each noun has its own article because they are two separate nouns, and they have different grammatical genders:
Why is it carta de presentación?
This is a very common Spanish structure: noun + de + noun.
So:
- carta de presentación = literally letter of presentation
- in natural English, this is usually cover letter
Spanish often uses de where English uses a noun-noun combination:
- tarjeta de crédito = credit card
- centro de salud = health centre / health center
- carta de presentación = cover letter
So de presentación tells you what kind of letter it is.
What exactly does historial profesional mean? Is it the same as a CV or résumé?
Not exactly, although the meanings can overlap depending on context.
Historial profesional means your professional history, career record, or work background. It focuses on your experience over time.
A CV/résumé in Spanish is more commonly:
- currículum
- currículum vitae
So:
- historial profesional = your professional background/history
- currículum = the document itself
In some real-world contexts, people may use them loosely, but they are not strictly the same thing.
Why is profesional after historial instead of before it?
Because in Spanish, descriptive adjectives usually come after the noun.
So:
- historial profesional = professional history
- carta profesional = professional letter
This is the normal, neutral word order in Spanish.
Putting an adjective before the noun is sometimes possible, but it often changes the tone, emphasis, or meaning. Here, historial profesional is the standard order.
Why is it y el historial and not e el historial?
Because the conjunction y only changes to e when the next sound directly after it is an i sound.
- padres e hijos
- España e Italia
But here the word immediately after the conjunction is el, not historial:
- y el historial
Since el begins with an e sound, y stays y.
So this sentence is correct as written:
- la carta de presentación y el historial profesional
Why does presentación have an accent mark, but profesional does not?
Because of Spanish stress rules.
Presentación ends in -n, so by the normal rule it would be stressed on the second-to-last syllable. But the actual stress is on the last syllable:
- pre-sen-ta-ción
Since that breaks the default rule, it needs a written accent: presentación.
Profesional ends in -l. Words ending in consonants other than n or s are normally stressed on the last syllable, which is exactly what happens here:
- pro-fe-sio-nal
So profesional does not need an accent mark.
Is revisar the same as leer here?
Not quite.
Revisar usually means something like:
- to review
- to check
- to look over
- to go through carefully
So revisamos suggests more than just reading. It implies examining the documents, checking them, or going over them in some purposeful way.
If you said leemos la carta, that would mean simply we read the letter.
If you say revisamos la carta, it sounds more like we reviewed/checked the letter.
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