Word
Nuestro doctor es colombiano.
Meaning
Our doctor is Colombian.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Nuestro doctor es colombiano.
Why isn't colombiano capitalized?
In Spanish, adjectives for nationalities and languages are not capitalized like they are in English. You will always write words like colombiano, mexicano, or inglés with a lowercase starting letter.
Why does the sentence use es instead of está?
Why is it nuestro and not nuestra? Does it mean the people speaking are men?
No, it doesn't tell us the gender of the people speaking. In Spanish, the word for 'our' (nuestro) must match the gender and number of the person or thing being talked about. Since doctor is a masculine singular word, we use the masculine singular form nuestro.
How would this sentence change if the doctor was a woman?