En otras palabras, el plan ha cambiado.

In other words, the plan has changed.

Breakdown of En otras palabras, el plan ha cambiado.

• haber: to have
• cambiar: to change
• el plan: the plan
• en otras palabras: in other words

Questions & Answers about En otras palabras, el plan ha cambiado.

What does En otras palabras mean, and how is it used?

En otras palabras is a fixed expression meaning in other words. It is used to rephrase, clarify, or summarize what was said before.

So in this sentence, the speaker is introducing a simpler or clearer restatement of an earlier idea.

It works very much like English in other words:

• Es demasiado caro. En otras palabras, no lo voy a comprar.
• Está ocupado; en otras palabras, no puede venir.

Because it is such a common set phrase, it is best learned as one whole chunk.

Why is it otras palabras and not otros palabras?

Because palabras is a feminine plural noun.

In Spanish, adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in gender and number:

• singular masculine: otro
• singular feminine: otra
• plural masculine: otros
• plural feminine: otras

Since palabras is feminine plural, the adjective must also be feminine plural: otras.

Why is palabras plural?

Because the expression is fixed as en otras palabras, literally in other words.

English also uses the plural here: other words, not other word. Spanish does the same. It refers to saying the same idea again using different wording.

So en otra palabra would sound wrong in this context.