El acta incluye la votación y la mayoría.

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Breakdown of El acta incluye la votación y la mayoría.

• incluir: to include
• el acta: the official meeting record
• la votación: the vote

Questions & Answers about El acta incluye la votación y la mayoría.

What does acta mean here? Is it the same as act in English?

Not exactly. In Spanish, acta usually means an official written record of a meeting, decision, or event.

In this kind of sentence, el acta is often best understood as:

• the minutes
• the official record
• the written report

It is not usually the same as the English word act meaning a law, a performance, or a deed.

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Why is it el acta and not la acta if acta is a feminine noun?

This is a very common question. Acta is indeed feminine, but it takes el in the singular because it begins with a stressed a- sound.

So you get:

• el acta
• el agua
• el aula

But the noun is still feminine, so any adjective agrees in the feminine:

• el acta oficial
• el agua fría

And in the plural, it goes back to the normal feminine article:

• las actas

So in your sentence, el acta is grammatically correct even though acta is feminine.

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Why is the verb incluye and what tense is it?