La mujer ciega usa el ascensor.

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Breakdown of La mujer ciega usa el ascensor.

• el ascensor: the lift
• la mujer: the woman
• ciego: blind

Questions & Answers about La mujer ciega usa el ascensor.

Why is it la mujer and not just mujer?

Because Spanish usually uses an article with singular countable nouns in sentences like this.

• la mujer = the woman
• Saying just mujer here would sound incomplete or unnatural in standard Spanish.

Spanish uses articles more often than English, so La mujer ciega usa el ascensor sounds natural, while Mujer ciega usa el ascensor normally would not.

Why is it ciega and not ciego?

Because adjectives in Spanish usually agree with the noun they describe in gender and number.

• mujer is feminine singular
• so the adjective must also be feminine singular: ciega

Compare:

• el hombre ciego = the blind man
• la mujer ciega = the blind woman
• las mujeres ciegas = the blind women

Why does ciega come after mujer?

In Spanish, descriptive adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• la mujer ciega = literally the woman blind

That word order is completely normal in Spanish.
Putting the adjective before the noun is sometimes possible, but it often sounds more literary, emphatic, or changes the nuance. In a simple factual sentence, la mujer ciega is the standard order.

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