Calibramos el audífono durante la adaptación audioprotésica.

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Breakdown of Calibramos el audífono durante la adaptación audioprotésica.

• el audífono: the hearing aid
• calibrar: to calibrate
• la adaptación audioprotésica: the hearing-aid fitting

Questions & Answers about Calibramos el audífono durante la adaptación audioprotésica.

Why is calibramos used here, and what tense is it?

Calibramos is the 1st person plural form of calibrar: we calibrate / we calibrated.

This form is a little tricky because in Spanish it can be:

• present indicative: we calibrate
• preterite: we calibrated

So calibramos el audífono can mean either we calibrate the hearing aid or we calibrated the hearing aid, depending on context.

In a technical or procedural sentence like this, it often sounds like:

• a description of what professionals do in general: We calibrate the hearing aid during the fitting process
• or a report of what was done, if the surrounding context is in the past

Spanish often relies on context to make that clear.

Why is there el before audífono? In English we might just say we calibrate hearing aids or we calibrate the hearing aid.

Spanish uses articles more often than English, especially with concrete nouns.

Here, el audífono means the hearing aid. It refers to a specific device, probably the one being fitted or adjusted for the patient.

If you removed the article and said Calibramos audífono, it would sound wrong in standard Spanish.

So:

• el audífono = the hearing aid
• un audífono = a hearing aid

Does audífono definitely mean hearing aid in Spain?