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La manzana es una fruta.

La manzana es una fruta.
The apple is a fruit.
From Lesson 63:Basic Food and Drink·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about La manzana es una fruta.

Why is es used here instead of está?
Both mean "is", but we use es (from the verb ser) to talk about what something fundamentally is. Since being a fruit is a permanent identity of an apple, we use es. We use está for temporary states, locations, or feelings.
Why do we use una before fruta instead of un?
In Spanish, all nouns have a gender. Fruta is a feminine noun (you can often guess this because it ends in -a). The word for "a" has to match the gender of the noun, so we use the feminine una instead of the masculine un.
How do you pronounce the 'z' in manzana in Spain?
In most of Spain, the letter 'z' is pronounced like the "th" in the English word "think". So, manzana sounds a bit like "man-THAH-nah". In Latin America and some parts of southern Spain, it is pronounced like an "s".
Manzana and fruta both end in -a. Do all fruits in Spanish end in -a?
Not always! While many fruits are feminine and end in -a (like la naranja for orange), others are masculine, like el plátano (the banana) or el limón (the lemon). You should learn the article (el or la) whenever you learn a new noun.

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