Word
La médica escucha a la paciente con calma en la consulta.
Meaning
The doctor listens to the patient calmly at the doctor’s office.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of La médica escucha a la paciente con calma en la consulta.
en
at
con
with
a
to
escuchar
to listen
Questions & Answers about La médica escucha a la paciente con calma en la consulta.
Why does the sentence use la médica instead of el médico?
Could you say El médico escucha a la paciente if the doctor is a man?
Why is it la paciente and not el paciente?
Because paciente changes gender with the person it describes, even though it always ends in -e:
- el paciente = the male patient
- la paciente = the female patient
The noun’s ending doesn’t tell you the gender here; the article (el / la) does. In the sentence, la paciente tells us the patient is female.