El comprador recibió el producto.

to receive

Breakdown of El comprador recibió el producto.

• el producto: the product
• el comprador: the buyer

Questions & Answers about El comprador recibió el producto.

Why is it recibió here?

Recibió is the preterite form of recibir and means received in the sense of a completed past action.

• recibir = to receive
• recibió = he/she/it received

So the sentence describes one finished action in the past: the buyer received the product.

This form is third person singular, so it can mean:

• he received
• she received
• it received
• or you received in the formal singular (usted) if the subject were usted

Here, the subject is el comprador, so the buyer received.

Why does recibió have an accent mark?

The accent mark in recibió shows where the stress goes: re-ci-BIÓ.

Without the accent, recibio would not follow standard Spanish spelling rules for the intended pronunciation. The written accent helps distinguish the correct stressed syllable in the preterite form.

This is very common in third-person singular preterite verbs:

• comió
• vivió
• recibió

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