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Is "escalón" masculine or feminine?

Is "escalón" masculine or feminine?

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One of today's Word of the Day examples was "la tercera escalón". Should it not be "el tercer" instead of "la tercera"?

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updated Feb 4, 2011
posted by Lalo43

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"La" is connected to the adjective "tercera" describing escalón.

The third step

If it were only escalón it would be "el escalón".

The step

updated Feb 4, 2011
posted by PA_Surfiador
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It's certainly masculine, so it shouldn't be 'tercera'.

updated Feb 4, 2011
posted by Jack-OBrien