La información es verdadera.

Breakdown of La información es verdadera.

ser
to be
la información
the information
verdadero
true

Questions & Answers about La información es verdadera.

Why does the sentence start with la? In English, we often just say information without the.

La is the definite article, meaning the.

In Spanish, abstract nouns like información often appear with an article more naturally than in English. So:

  • La información es verdadera. = The information is true.

If you remove the article and say Información es verdadera, that sounds unnatural in normal Spanish.

Spanish also uses articles differently from English in general, so it is very common to see el/la where English would use no article.

Is información singular or plural?

Información is grammatically singular.

That is why the verb is es and not son:

  • La información es verdadera. = singular
  • Las informaciones son verdaderas. = plural, but this is much less common

Like English information, información is usually treated as an uncountable idea. In most everyday situations, Spanish prefers the singular.

Why is información feminine?

Información is a feminine noun, which is why it takes:

  • la instead of el
  • verdadera instead of verdadero

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

  • la información
  • la conversación
  • la estación
  • la nación

So -ción is a strong clue that the noun is feminine.

Why is it verdadera and not verdadero?

Because adjectives in Spanish usually agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here, información is:

So the adjective must also be feminine singular:

  • verdadera

Compare:

  • El dato es verdadero. → masculine singular
  • La información es verdadera. → feminine singular
  • Las noticias son verdaderas. → feminine plural
Why is the adjective after the noun idea, instead of before it?

In this sentence, the adjective is not directly attached to the noun. It comes after the verb es:

  • La información = subject
  • es = verb
  • verdadera = adjective describing the subject

So this is not the same as saying the true information. It is saying the information is true.

If you put the adjective directly before or after the noun, you change the structure:

  • La información verdadera = the true information

But:

  • La información es verdadera = The information is true
Why do we use es and not está?

Spanish has two main verbs for to be: ser and estar.

Here we use ser because verdadera describes an essential quality or a statement of truth about the information. It is not talking about a temporary condition or location.

So:

  • La información es verdadera. = The information is true.

Using estar here would sound wrong in standard usage.

A simple way to think about it:

  • ser = what something is
  • estar = how something is or where it is

Truth is treated here as a characteristic, so ser is the correct choice.

What exactly does verdadera mean here? Is it the same as true?

Yes. In this sentence, verdadera means true.

So La información es verdadera means the information is correct or not false.

A close synonym is cierta:

  • La información es verdadera.
  • La información es cierta.

Both can mean The information is true, though cierta is also very common in everyday speech.

Could I also say La información es cierto?

No. It must be cierta or verdadera, not cierto.

Why? Because información is feminine singular, and the adjective has to agree:

  • La información es cierta. ✅
  • La información es verdadera. ✅
  • La información es cierto. ❌
  • La información es verdadero. ❌

Cierto and verdadero are masculine forms. With la información, you need the feminine forms.

Where is the stress in información and why is there an accent mark?

The stress falls on the last syllable: in-for-ma-CIÓN.

The written accent on ó shows where the stress goes.

Without going too deep into spelling rules, the accent mark is needed because the word ends in n, and Spanish spelling rules would normally stress it differently if the accent were not written.

So the accent helps you pronounce it correctly:

  • información = in-for-ma-THYON / in-for-ma-SYON
    (Spain pronunciation often has the th sound for c before i)
How is verdadera pronounced in Spain?

In Spain, a careful pronunciation would be roughly:

  • verdadera → ber-da-DE-ra

A few helpful notes:

  • v and b sound very similar in Spanish
  • the d between vowels is softer than in English
  • the rolled or tapped r matters:
    • the r in vera-type positions is usually a tap
    • the r in verdadera should sound Spanish, not like an English r

A rough full pronunciation of the sentence in Spain could be:

  • La información es verdadera
    ≈ la in-for-ma-THYON es ber-da-DE-ra
Can I change the word order?

Yes, but the normal, neutral order is:

  • La información es verdadera.

Spanish sometimes changes word order for emphasis, but this sentence is already the most natural standard version for everyday use.

For example, Verdadera es la información would sound marked or poetic, not like normal conversation.

So for a learner, the best version to use is:

  • La información es verdadera.
Is this a common everyday sentence, or would native speakers say something else more often?

It is correct and natural, but in everyday speech native speakers might often choose slightly different wording depending on the context, such as:

  • La información es correcta. = The information is correct.
  • La información es cierta. = The information is true.
  • Eso es verdad. = That is true.
  • La información es fiable. = The information is reliable.

So La información es verdadera is absolutely fine, but in real conversation cierta or correcta may sometimes sound more common depending on what you mean exactly.

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