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El estudiante deja de interrumpir la clase.

El estudiante deja de interrumpir la clase.
The student stops interrupting the class.
From Lesson 87:Finishing and quitting actions (terminar de, dejar de)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El estudiante deja de interrumpir la clase.

Why do we need the word de between deja and interrumpir?
In Spanish, to say you stop doing or quit doing an activity, you use the special phrase dejar de followed by an action. Without the de, the verb dejar usually means to leave an object somewhere or to let someone do something.
The English translation says interrupting, so why isn't the Spanish verb interrumpiendo?
In Spanish, when a verb immediately follows a preposition like de, it must always be in the infinitive form (the basic dictionary form ending in -ar, -er, or -ir). While English uses the -ing form after stop, Spanish requires the infinitive: deja de interrumpir.
How do we know if estudiante is a male or female student?
The noun estudiante does not change its ending based on gender. Instead, you look at the article before it. Here, the masculine article El tells us it is a male student. If it were a female student, it would be La estudiante.

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