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Necesito la fregona y un cubo con agua.

Necesito la fregona y un cubo con agua.
I need the mop and a bucket with water.
From Lesson 300:Temporal clauses (antes de que)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Necesito la fregona y un cubo con agua.

I have seen other words for mop before. Is fregona used everywhere?
In Spain, fregona is the standard word for a mop. If you are consuming media from Latin America, you will likely hear terms like trapeador, but in Spain you will always use la fregona.
Why does the sentence say un cubo con agua instead of un cubo de agua?
Both are correct, but they have a slight nuance. Un cubo de agua translates to a bucket of water, where the focus is on the water itself. Un cubo con agua means a bucket with water, which focuses slightly more on the physical bucket that happens to contain water.
Just as a refresher, what is the gender of agua?
The word agua is feminine. In this sentence it does not need an article, but if you wanted to say the water, you would use el agua. This uses the masculine article to avoid the awkward sound of la crashing into the stressed first syllable of agua. Adjectives stay feminine, like el agua fría, and the plural goes back to normal with las aguas.

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