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Limpiamos la encuadernación con el bisturí y la espátula.

Limpiamos la encuadernación con el bisturí y la espátula.
We clean the binding with the scalpel and the spatula.
From Lesson 445:Collective agreement (la mayoría de)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Limpiamos la encuadernación con el bisturí y la espátula.

y
and
con
with
limpiar
to clean
la encuadernación
binding
el bisturí
scalpel
la espátula
spatula

Questions & Answers about Limpiamos la encuadernación con el bisturí y la espátula.

Could limpiamos also be translated as past tense?
Yes. Limpiamos is the nosotros form for both the present tense and the preterite (simple past) tense of regular -ar verbs. You have to rely on the surrounding context to know whether the action is happening now or already happened.
Bisturí ends in a stressed vowel. How is it pluralized?
Nouns ending in a stressed -í traditionally take -es in the plural, making it bisturíes. However, in everyday Latin American Spanish, it is also very common and accepted to just add an -s, making it bisturís.
Why does the sentence say el bisturí y la espátula instead of just el bisturí y espátula?
In Spanish, when you list nouns of different genders (the masculine bisturí and the feminine espátula), you must use the definite article for each one. Even if they were the same gender, Spanish generally prefers repeating the article for each item in a list.
What is the root of the word encuadernación?
It is built around the word cuaderno (notebook). The prefix en- and the suffix -ción are added to describe the action or result of binding pages together.

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