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¡La casa de las mujeres es grande!

¡La casa de las mujeres es grande!
The house of the women is big!
From Lesson 2:Plural nouns and definite articles (los, las)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¡La casa de las mujeres es grande!

Why does mujer become mujeres instead of just adding an -s?
Because the singular word mujer (woman) ends in a consonant. In Spanish, when a noun ends in a consonant, you make it plural by adding -es. If it ended in a vowel, like casa, you would just add an -s to make casas.
Why is the word las used here instead of la or los?
Las is the plural word for "the" when talking about feminine nouns. Since mujeres is both feminine and plural, we must use las. You use la for singular feminine nouns (like la casa) and los for plural masculine nouns.
If the sentence mentions las mujeres (plural), why is the verb es (is) instead of son (are)?
The verb always matches the main subject of the sentence. Here, the subject is the singular noun la casa (the house). The phrase de las mujeres (of the women) just tells us whose house it is. Since there is only one house, we use the singular verb es.
Casa is a feminine noun, so why doesn't the adjective change to granda?
Adjectives that end in the letter -e, like grande (big), do not change to show gender. They stay exactly the same whether they are describing a masculine or a feminine noun.

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