Learn Spanish (Latin America): Él repite el mensaje importante.

Él repite el mensaje importante.

He repeats the important message.

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Questions & Answers about Él repite el mensaje importante.

Why is it repite with an 'i' instead of 'repete'?

The dictionary form is repetir (to repeat). This is a stem-changing verb, meaning the 'e' in the middle changes to an 'i' in the present tense for most subjects. For 'he' (él), the stem 'repet-' changes to 'repit-', making it repite.

Why does the first word, Él, have an accent mark, but el later in the sentence doesn't?

The written accent mark helps tell these two identical words apart. Él with an accent means 'he'. Without the accent, el means 'the', as seen in el mensaje (the message).

Since mensaje ends in an 'e', how do we know it uses the masculine el?

Nouns ending in -e can be either masculine or feminine, but there is a handy rule here: almost all Spanish words ending in -aje are masculine! Because of this, it is el mensaje.

Why does importante come after mensaje?

In Spanish, adjectives (describing words) almost always come after the noun they describe. You literally say 'the message important' (el mensaje importante). Also, since importante ends in an 'e', its spelling stays exactly the same whether the noun is masculine or feminine.