El tribunal revisa el informe.

The court checks the report.

Breakdown of El tribunal revisa el informe.

• el informe: the report
• revisar: to check
• el tribunal: the court (legal)

Questions & Answers about El tribunal revisa el informe.

Why is el used twice in El tribunal revisa el informe?

Because both tribunal and informe are singular masculine nouns.

• el tribunal = the court / the tribunal
• el informe = the report

In Spanish, nouns usually need an article more often than in English, especially in simple statements like this one.

Why is it revisa and not revisar?

Revisar is the infinitive, meaning to review / to check / to examine.

In the sentence, the verb has to be conjugated to match the subject:

• revisar = infinitive
• revisa = he/she/it reviews or you (formal) review

Here the subject is el tribunal, which is third person singular, so the correct form is revisa.

What tense is revisa?

It is the present indicative.

So El tribunal revisa el informe is literally The court reviews the report or The court is reviewing the report, depending on context.

In Spanish, the simple present can often cover both:

• a general present action
• an action happening now

Why is tribunal singular even though it refers to a group of people?