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La profesora corrige los exámenes y explica cada equivocación en clase.
Meaning
The teacher corrects the exams and explains each mistake in class.
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Breakdown of La profesora corrige los exámenes y explica cada equivocación en clase.
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the teacher
Questions & Answers about La profesora corrige los exámenes y explica cada equivocación en clase.
Why is it la profesora and not el profesor?
In Spanish, nouns that refer to people usually have a grammatical gender that matches the person:
- el profesor = the (male) teacher
- la profesora = the (female) teacher
The article (el / la) and the ending of the noun often show gender. Here, la + profesora tells you the teacher is female.
In Spain, profesor/a is normally used for secondary school and university; maestro/a is more for primary school teachers.
Why isn’t there a subject pronoun like ella? Why don’t we say Ella la profesora corrige…?
In Spanish you normally don’t use a subject pronoun if the subject is clear from context or from the verb ending.
- La profesora corrige… is complete: la profesora is the subject.
- It would be wrong to add ella in front of the noun (Ella la profesora… sounds ungrammatical).
You could say Ella corrige los exámenes…, but then you wouldn’t repeat la profesora. You choose either a noun (la profesora) or a pronoun (ella), not both together in this position.
What tense are corrige and explica, and how would that usually translate?