Breakdown of Estamos organizando el almacén y necesitamos la mitad del inventario.
y
and
necesitar
to need
estar
to be (location/state)
organizar
to organize
la mitad
the half
el inventario
the inventory
el almacén
the warehouse
Questions & Answers about Estamos organizando el almacén y necesitamos la mitad del inventario.
Why do we use la mitad del instead of medio here?
La mitad is a noun meaning "the half," so it needs the preposition de (of) to connect it to the next noun. Here, de + el contracts to del. You use la mitad de when talking about half of a specific group or thing. Medio is an adjective that goes directly next to a noun without de, usually for measurements or non-specific things (like medio litro, meaning "half a liter").
Could I say organizamos instead of estamos organizando?
Is almacén the only word for "warehouse" in Latin America?
Why does almacén have an accent mark?
Words ending in a vowel, -n, or -s normally place the spoken stress on the second-to-last syllable. Because the stress in almacén actually falls on the final syllable (-cén), it requires a written accent mark to break the rule. Note that the plural form, almacenes, drops the accent because the added syllable makes the word naturally follow the standard stress rule!
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