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Questions & Answers about La casa es grande.
Why do we use la instead of el before casa?
In Spanish, all nouns have a gender (masculine or feminine). Casa is a feminine word, which you can often guess because it ends in -a. Since it is feminine and singular, we use the feminine definite article la for "the".
Which form of the verb "to be" is es?
Because casa is feminine, shouldn't the adjective be granda?
Not all adjectives change to end in -a for feminine words! Adjectives that end in -e, like grande, are exactly the same for both masculine and feminine nouns.