La galería recibió ochocientas visitas durante la segunda semana.

Because galería is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it takes the feminine singular definite article la.

A few useful points:

• la galería = feminine singular
• las galerías = feminine plural

This is something you usually just learn with the noun. The ending -ía often appears in feminine nouns, though the most reliable approach is to learn the article together with the word: la galería.

The accent mark shows where the stress falls: ga-le-RÍ-a.

Without the accent, standard Spanish spelling rules would suggest a different stress pattern. The written accent tells you clearly that the stressed syllable is rí.

This is also helpful because galería has a vowel sequence í-a, and the accent on í helps keep them in separate syllables rather than blending them into one.

Recibió is the third-person singular preterite form of recibir.

It is used here because the sentence refers to a completed event in the past: the gallery received that number of visits during a specific finished time period.

Compare:

• recibió = it received / it got
  
  • completed past action
• recibe = it receives / it is receiving
  
  • present tense
• recibía = it used to receive / it was receiving
  
  • imperfect, often for background, repeated actions, or ongoing past situations

Because durante la segunda semana refers to a defined period and the sentence reports a completed result, recibió is the natural choice.

Grammatically, recibió means received, but in this context Spanish often uses recibir visitas where English might more naturally say:

• the gallery got 800 visits
• the gallery had 800 visits
• sometimes even the gallery welcomed 800 visits

So yes, received is the direct equivalent, but the most natural English phrasing may vary depending on context.

Because ochocientos/ochocientas must agree in gender with the noun it modifies, and visitas is feminine plural.

So:

• ochocientos libros = 800 books
• ochocientas visitas = 800 visits

This gender agreement happens with the hundreds in Spanish:

• doscientos / doscientas
• trescientos / trescientas
• cuatrocientos / cuatrocientas
• etc.

But not all number words change. For example:

• ocho does not change
• mil does not change

Because visita can mean a visit rather than a visitor.

In this sentence, ochocientas visitas refers to the number of visits made, not necessarily the number of individual people. One person could make more than one visit.

If you specifically wanted to say visitors, you would more likely use a word like:

• visitantes

So:

• ochocientas visitas = 800 visits
• ochocientos visitantes = 800 visitors

That distinction is very common in museum, gallery, website, and event statistics.

Durante means during, and it introduces the time period in which the action happened.

So:

• durante la semana = during the week
• durante la segunda semana = during the second week

This is a very common way to express during + time period in Spanish.

Yes, you often could, but the nuance is slightly different.

• durante la segunda semana emphasizes that something happened over the course of that week
• en la segunda semana means in the second week, locating the event within that week

In many contexts, both are possible. In this sentence, durante works especially well because it sounds natural for totals accumulated over a period of time.

Spanish often uses the definite article with ordinals when referring to a specific item in a sequence.

So:

• la primera vez = the first time
• el segundo día = the second day
• la segunda semana = the second week

Leaving out the article is usually not natural here.

Because segunda must agree with semana, which is a feminine singular noun.

So:

• el segundo día = masculine singular
• la segunda semana = feminine singular

Like adjectives, ordinal numbers usually agree in gender and number with the noun they describe.

The sentence uses a very normal Spanish word order:

• La galería = subject
• recibió = verb
• ochocientas visitas = object
• durante la segunda semana = time expression

Spanish word order is somewhat flexible, so other versions may be possible, such as:

• Durante la segunda semana, la galería recibió ochocientas visitas.

This version puts more focus on the time expression. But the original order is completely natural and straightforward.

In standard Peninsular Spanish, a rough guide would be:

la ga-le-RÍ-a re-ci-BI-ó o-cho-CIEN-tas bi-SI-tas du-RAN-te la se-GUN-da se-MA-na

A few Spain-specific pronunciation notes:

• c before i in recibió is usually pronounced like a th sound in thin:
  re-thi-BIÓ
• v and b are pronounced very similarly in Spanish, so visitas sounds with a b/v-like sound that is not strongly distinguished
• The written accents show stress:
  • galería
  • recibió

The accent shows that the stress falls on the last syllable: re-ci-BIÓ.

It also helps distinguish the preterite form from other forms in writing. This is very common in Spanish past tense forms such as:

• habló
• comió
• recibió

That final written accent is a strong clue that you are looking at a completed past action in the él/ella/usted form.

Yes. Like many nouns of this type, la galería can refer to:

• the physical place
• the gallery as an institution or organisation

So in this sentence, it could mean either:

• the gallery building received that number of visits
• the gallery as an institution logged that number of visits

Spanish often uses the institution name as the grammatical subject in exactly this way, just as English does.