El fiscal llegó.

The prosecutor arrived.

Breakdown of El fiscal llegó.

• llegar: to arrive
• el fiscal: the prosecutor

Questions & Answers about El fiscal llegó.

Why is there el before fiscal?

El is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

In Spanish, it is very common to use the definite article with nouns where English also uses the. Here, el fiscal means the prosecutor.

Because fiscal is a singular masculine noun in this sentence, it takes el.

Is fiscal masculine or feminine?

In this sentence, fiscal is masculine: el fiscal.

A lot of nouns ending in -al are masculine, but the main thing to learn is the article together with the noun:

• el fiscal = the male prosecutor / prosecutor
• la fiscal = the female prosecutor

So fiscal can refer to either a man or a woman, and the article shows the gender.

What does llegó mean grammatically?

Llegó is the third-person singular preterite form of the verb llegar.

That means it can mean:

• he arrived
• she arrived
• it arrived
• you arrived (formal usted)

In El fiscal llegó, the subject is el fiscal, so llegó means the prosecutor arrived.

Why does llegó have an accent mark?