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El estudiante mira el mapa.

El estudiante mira el mapa.
The student looks at the map.
From Lesson 9:Noun gender exceptions·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El estudiante mira el mapa.

el estudiante
student
mirar
to look at / to watch
el mapa
the map

Questions & Answers about El estudiante mira el mapa.

Why is it el mapa instead of la mapa since it ends in -a?
Most Spanish words ending in -a are feminine, but mapa is a very common exception. It is always masculine, which is why we use el instead of la.
Since we say el estudiante, does the word for a female student change to estudianta?
No, the word estudiante stays exactly the same for both men and women. To show that a student is female, you just change the word for "the" from el to la, making it la estudiante.
Where is the word for "at" in this sentence?
The Spanish verb mirar means "to look at" all by itself. You don't need to add an extra word for "at" because that meaning is already built right into mira.
Could we just say Mira el mapa without El estudiante?
Yes! If we already know who we are talking about, we can drop El estudiante and just say Mira el mapa, which means "He looks at the map" or "She looks at the map".

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