La profesión es importante.

The occupation is important.

Breakdown of La profesión es importante.

• ser: to be
• importante: important
• la profesión: the occupation

Questions & Answers about La profesión es importante.

Why is it la profesión and not el profesión?

Because profesión is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it takes the feminine article la.

A very useful pattern is that nouns ending in -ión are usually feminine:

• la profesión
• la nación
• la decisión

So this is something worth memorising as a general rule.

Why is there an accent mark on profesión?

The accent mark shows where the stress goes: pro-fe-SIÓN.

Without the written accent, Spanish stress rules would make you stress the wrong syllable. Since profesión ends in -n, Spanish would normally stress the second-to-last syllable, so the accent mark is needed to show that the stress is actually on the last syllable.

Why is there a la here if English often says profession is important without the?