Questions & Answers about Los deportistas entrenan todos los días.
Why is it Los deportistas when the word ends in -a?
Nouns ending in -ista (like deportista, artista, turista) are the same for both masculine and feminine. The article tells us the gender. Here, Los shows it refers to a group of male athletes or a mixed-gender group. If it were an all-female group, it would be Las deportistas. Wait, shouldn't it be se entrenan instead of just entrenan?
You will hear both! Traditionally, Spanish used the reflexive se entrenan to mean the athletes are training themselves. However, in modern Spanish in Spain, it is very common to drop the se and just use entrenar as a normal verb when talking about practicing a sport. Could I use cada día instead of todos los días here?
Yes, you can. Both mean every day. Todos los días (literally all the days) focuses a bit more on the continuous routine, while cada día focuses on each individual day. They are completely interchangeable in this sentence. Learn Los deportistas entrenan todos los días and more in Spanish
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