Learn Spanish (Latin America): El estudiante inteligente entiende el plan. - The intelligent student understands the plan.

El estudiante inteligente entiende el plan.

The intelligent student understands the plan.

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Questions & Answers about El estudiante inteligente entiende el plan.

Why is it entiende and not "entende"?

Entiende comes from the verb entender (to understand). It is a stem-changing verb. When you conjugate it for él, ella, or usted (like "the student" here), the second e in the stem changes to ie. That is why it becomes entiende instead of "entende".

Why does inteligente come after estudiante?

In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like inteligente usually come after the noun they describe. So, instead of "the intelligent student", Spanish speakers say "the student intelligent" (**el estudiante inteligente).

Would inteligente change to "inteligenta" if the student were female?

No! Adjectives that end in -e, like inteligente, are used for both masculine and feminine nouns. If the student were female, you would just change the article and keep the adjective the exact same: la estudiante inteligente.

How do we know estudiante is masculine here?