El resultado parece impresionante.

The result seems impressive.

Breakdown of El resultado parece impresionante.

• parecer: to seem
• el resultado: the result
• impresionante: impressive

Questions & Answers about El resultado parece impresionante.

Why is it el resultado and not just resultado?

In Spanish, singular countable nouns usually need an article or some other determiner.

So resultado on its own would often feel incomplete in a normal sentence. El resultado means the result.

Compare:

• El resultado parece impresionante. = The result seems impressive.
• Un resultado parece impresionante. = A result seems impressive.

Spanish uses articles more regularly than English, so learners often notice them more.

Why is resultado masculine?

Because resultado is a masculine noun in Spanish. One clue is the ending -o, which is often masculine, though not always.

That is why it takes:

• el resultado
• not la resultado

And if you describe it with an adjective that changes form, you would normally use the masculine form.

Why is it parece?

Parece is the third-person singular present form of the verb parecer.

The subject is el resultado, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• el resultado parece
• los resultados parecen

This is the same kind of agreement you see in English with the result seems vs the results seem.

What exactly does mean here?