La recaudación creció ayer.

Because recaudación is a feminine singular noun, so it takes the feminine singular definite article la.

• el = masculine singular
• la = feminine singular
• los / las = plural

Here, la recaudación means something like the revenue, the takings, or the amount collected, depending on context.

Recaudación comes from the verb recaudar, which means to collect money.

So recaudación usually refers to:

• revenue
• takings
• money collected
• box office receipts in some contexts
• tax revenue in others

It is a fairly formal noun and is often used in business, finance, public administration, events, or ticket sales.

The infinitive is crecer, meaning to grow or to increase.

So:

• crecer = to grow / to increase
• creció = grew / increased

In this sentence, creció is the verb form that matches la recaudación.

Because creció is the preterite form, which is commonly used for a completed action in the past.

• crece = it grows / is growing depending on context, present tense
• crecía = it was growing / used to grow, imperfect
• creció = it grew / increased, preterite

Since the sentence includes ayer (yesterday), Spanish normally uses the preterite for a completed event that happened at a specific time in the past.

It is from crecer, which is mostly regular in the preterite for this form, but there is one spelling change in some forms of the preterite because of pronunciation.

Relevant preterite forms:

• yo crecí
• tú creciste
• él/ella/usted creció
• nosotros crecimos
• vosotros crecisteis
• ellos/ellas/ustedes crecieron

In some other forms of verbs ending in -cer or -cir, Spanish changes spelling to keep the sound consistent, but creció itself is a standard preterite form you should simply learn as part of crecer.

The accent mark shows the stress: cre-ciÓ.

Without the accent, crecio would not follow standard Spanish spelling rules for where the stress should fall. The written accent tells you that the stress is on the last syllable.

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

• habló
• comió
• vivió
• creció

In most of Spain, the c before i is pronounced like the th in think.

So creció is pronounced roughly:

• kreh-thyó in most of Spain

More carefully:

• cre- = like kreh
• -ció = roughly thyó

In Latin America, it is usually pronounced with an s sound instead:

• kreh-syó

Since you asked about Spanish from Spain, the th sound is the standard one to expect in most regions.

Spanish word order is flexible, and adverbs of time like ayer often come at the beginning or end.

All of these are possible:

• La recaudación creció ayer.
• Ayer creció la recaudación.
• Ayer la recaudación creció.

The version with ayer at the end sounds very natural and neutral. It keeps the basic structure:

• subject: La recaudación
• verb: creció
• time expression: ayer

Yes. Aumentó is also very natural here and often sounds slightly more direct for numbers, amounts, or revenue.

Compare:

• La recaudación creció ayer. = The revenue grew yesterday.
• La recaudación aumentó ayer. = The revenue increased yesterday.

In many contexts, they are very close in meaning.
Aumentar is often especially common when talking about figures, prices, percentages, and measurable increases.

Because Spanish usually does not need subject pronouns when the verb form already shows who or what the subject is.

Here, creció already tells you it is third person singular, and the noun la recaudación is explicitly stated, so adding ella would be unnecessary.

Spanish commonly says:

• La recaudación creció ayer.

Not usually:

• Ella, la recaudación, creció ayer.

Spanish prefers to avoid subject pronouns unless they are needed for emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

Here it is being used as an uncountable or mass-style noun, similar to revenue in English.

So la recaudación refers to the total amount collected, not to individual items.

But in some contexts, Spanish can use related expressions in more specific ways, for example:

• la recaudación del concierto
• la recaudación de impuestos
• la recaudación en taquilla

So the noun is singular here because it refers to one total amount or one concept of collected revenue.