El departamento de recursos humanos envía la aprobación.

El is the definite article meaning the.

In el departamento, the noun departamento is masculine singular, so it takes el.

• el departamento = the department
• la oficina = the office

In Spanish, articles are used more often than in English, so you usually say el departamento rather than just departamento.

Recursos humanos is the fixed Spanish expression for human resources.

Literally, it is:

• recursos = resources
• humanos = human

The adjective humanos comes after the noun, which is the normal order in Spanish. It also agrees with recursos, so it is plural masculine:

• recurso humano = human resource
• recursos humanos = human resources

The full phrase departamento de recursos humanos means human resources department. Spanish often uses de where English uses a noun as an adjective.

The accent mark shows the stress and also helps distinguish the pronunciation.

Envía is from the verb enviar (to send), and this form means:

• él envía = he sends
• ella envía = she sends
• usted envía = you send (formal)

The accent tells you the stress falls on -ví-: en-VÍ-a.

Without the accent, the pronunciation rules would suggest a different stress pattern. In verbs like this, the accent often appears to keep the correct pronunciation.

Envía is in the present indicative tense.

Here are the main forms of enviar in the present:

• yo envío = I send
• tú envías = you send
• él/ella/usted envía = he/she/you send
• nosotros enviamos = we send
• vosotros enviáis = you all send
• ellos/ellas/ustedes envían = they/you all send

So in this sentence, envía means sends or sometimes is sending, depending on context.

The subject is el departamento de recursos humanos.

That whole noun phrase means the human resources department, and it is treated as singular, so the verb is singular too: envía.

So the structure is:

• El departamento de recursos humanos = subject
• envía = verb
• la aprobación = direct object

Even though recursos humanos is plural inside the phrase, the main noun is departamento, and that is what controls the verb.

Aprobación is a feminine singular noun, so it takes la.

• la aprobación = the approval

As with el departamento, Spanish often includes the article where English might or might not. In this sentence, la aprobación sounds natural because it refers to the approval as a specific thing being sent.

Aprobación is a noun meaning approval.

It comes from the verb aprobar (to approve).

Compare:

• aprobar = to approve
• la aprobación = the approval

So envía la aprobación means something like sends the approval, sends the approval document, or issues the approval, depending on context.

Yes, in some contexts you could use manda, from mandar, because it can also mean to send.

• envía = sends
• manda = sends

However, enviar often sounds a bit more neutral or formal for documents, messages, or official communication. Since this sentence sounds administrative or business-related, envía fits very naturally.

It is actually quite similar to English here:

• El departamento de recursos humanos = The human resources department
• envía = sends
• la aprobación = the approval

So the pattern is:

Subject + Verb + Object

What feels different is mostly the noun phrase departamento de recursos humanos, because Spanish uses de to connect nouns where English often puts one noun directly before another.

English: human resources department
Spanish: departamento de recursos humanos

Yes, Spanish often omits the subject pronoun, but here the subject is a full noun phrase, not a pronoun.

You could say just:

• Envía la aprobación.

But then it would mean He/She/It/You formal sends the approval, and the listener would need context to know who envía refers to.

If you want to make clear that it is the human resources department, you keep the full subject:

• El departamento de recursos humanos envía la aprobación.

Normally, no. In ordinary Spanish spelling, department names are usually written in lowercase unless they are part of an official title or heading.

So in a normal sentence:

• el departamento de recursos humanos

But in a company chart, heading, or official name, you might see:

• Departamento de Recursos Humanos

Both can appear, depending on style and context.