La reparación tuvo éxito.

the repair

Breakdown of La reparación tuvo éxito.

• tener éxito: to succeed

Questions & Answers about La reparación tuvo éxito.

Why is it tuvo and not tenía?

Because tuvo is the preterite form of tener, used for a completed event in the past.

• La reparación tuvo éxito presents the repair as a finished event, and says that it succeeded.
• La reparación tenía éxito sounds unusual in most contexts, because tener éxito is normally treated as something that happens or is achieved, not as an ongoing background state.

So in this sentence, tuvo is the natural choice.

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Why does Spanish use tener éxito instead of a verb like to succeed?

Spanish often expresses this idea with the fixed phrase tener éxito, literally to have success.

So:

• La reparación tuvo éxito = The repair was successful / succeeded

Spanish also has the verb triunfar, but that is less natural here. For a repair, tener éxito is the standard expression.

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Why is it La reparación and not El reparación?

Because reparación is a feminine noun.

A very common pattern is that nouns ending in -ción are feminine:

• la reparación
• la información
• la solución

So the article must be la.

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Why is there no article before ?