Questions & Answers about Los mapas son pequeños.
Why is it Los mapas and not Las mapas if the word ends in 'a'?
Mapa is a high-frequency exception to the rule! Even though it ends in 'a' (which usually means a word is feminine), it is actually a masculine noun. That is why it takes the masculine plural los instead of las.
Does the adjective pequeños have to be masculine even though mapas ends in an 'a'?
Why do we use son here instead of están?
How would you change this sentence to just say 'The map is small'?