La campaña electoral termina antes de las elecciones.

The election campaign ends before the elections.

Breakdown of La campaña electoral termina antes de las elecciones.

• antes de: before
• terminar: to finish
• las elecciones: the elections
• la campaña electoral: the election campaign

Questions & Answers about La campaña electoral termina antes de las elecciones.

Why does electoral come after campaña instead of before it?

In Spanish, many descriptive adjectives commonly come after the noun. So campaña electoral is the normal way to say electoral campaign or election campaign.

Putting the adjective before the noun is sometimes possible in Spanish, but it often changes the tone or emphasis. In this case, campaña electoral is the standard, natural expression.

Why is it la campaña electoral and not just campaña electoral?

Spanish often uses the definite article el/la/los/las more often than English does.

Here, la campaña electoral means the election campaign in a general or specific sense. Spanish commonly includes the article when talking about something known, expected, or understood from context.

So even if English might sometimes say Election campaigning ends before the elections, Spanish naturally says La campaña electoral...

Why is it termina and not terminan?

Because the subject is la campaña electoral, which is singular.

• La campaña electoral = singular
• termina = third person singular of terminar

So the verb must match the singular subject:

• La campaña electoral termina
• not La campaña electoral terminan

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