Questions & Answers about La almohada nueva es muy blanda.
Why is it la almohada and not el almohada?
Because almohada is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it takes the feminine article la.
A useful general rule is that many nouns ending in -a are feminine, and almohada follows that pattern:
- la almohada
- una almohada
As always, noun gender in Spanish is grammatical, so it has to match the article and any adjectives that describe it.
Why does nueva end in -a?
Because adjectives usually agree with the noun they describe in gender and number.
Here, almohada is:
So the adjective must also be feminine singular:
- nuevo → masculine singular
- nueva → feminine singular
- nuevos → masculine plural
- nuevas → feminine plural
That is why Spanish says la almohada nueva, not la almohada nuevo.