El corredor bebe agua.

El is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

So el corredor = the runner.

It matches corredor, which is a masculine singular noun.

Corredor is the masculine form meaning male runner or runner in a general masculine form.

If you were talking about a female runner, you would usually say la corredora.

• el corredor = the male runner
• la corredora = the female runner

Because the subject is el corredor, which is he / it in grammatical person: third person singular.

The verb beber means to drink, and in the present tense it changes like this:

• yo bebo = I drink
• tú bebes = you drink
• él/ella bebe = he/she drinks

So El corredor bebe agua uses bebe because el corredor is he.

In Spain Spanish, it is roughly:

ko-rre-DOR

A few useful points:

• the rr is a rolled or trilled r
• the stress is on the last syllable: -dor
• the c sounds like k here because it comes before o

It is roughly:

BEH-beh

Both e vowels are short, clear eh sounds.

Also, in Spanish, b and v are pronounced very similarly.

Because Spanish often leaves out the article with uncountable nouns when speaking generally about what someone drinks, eats, buys, etc.

So:

• bebe agua = drinks water

This sounds natural in Spanish.

You could also see bebe el agua in a different context, but that would usually mean drinks the water, referring to specific water.

It would be el agua in the singular.

Even though agua is a feminine noun, it uses el instead of la in the singular because it begins with a stressed a sound.

So:

• el agua
• el agua fría

Notice that the adjective is still feminine: fría.

In the plural, it goes back to normal feminine articles:

• las aguas

Yes, but this order is also the most normal one.

Spanish often uses the same basic order as English:

subject + verb + object

So:

• El corredor = subject
• bebe = verb
• agua = object

Spanish word order can be more flexible than English, but this sentence is the standard, neutral way to say it.

Yes, Spanish often drops the subject when it is clear from context.

So Bebe agua could mean:

• He/She drinks water
• or, depending on context, Drink water when speaking to tú

That is one reason why including el corredor makes the meaning clearer.

No.

The personal a is used before specific human direct objects, and sometimes pets. But agua is a thing, not a person.

So:

• El corredor bebe agua ✅
• El corredor bebe a agua ❌

Yes, very often.

The Spanish present tense can describe:

• a habitual action: The runner drinks water
• an action happening now: The runner is drinking water

If you want to make is drinking extra explicit, Spanish can also use:

• El corredor está bebiendo agua

It would be:

Los corredores beben agua.

Changes:

• el → los
• corredor → corredores
• bebe → beben

So that means The runners drink water.

No.

They look similar, but they are different words:

• bebe = drinks (verb form from beber)
• bebé = baby (noun)

The accent mark matters:

• bebe = verb
• bebé = noun