adjective gender agreement for "guarda"

Question

Hola,

I need a bit help with the adjective agreement for the word "guarda", because in lesson 3.15, I see the word "La guarda jurado" on a flashcard. I wonder if "guard jurado" is a special case, or there is an adjective (jurado used as an adjective) gender line up error here.

In the SD dictionary, it says,

masculine or feminine noun 1. guard, keeper (vigilante) guarda forestal -> gamekeeper, forest ranger guarda jurado -> security guard

I thought the line up should be:

male security guard -- el guarda jurado

female security guard -- la guarda jurada

Gracias

Answer 1

rmale security guard -- el guarda jurado

female security guard -- la guarda jurada

I don't know what you mean by "an adjective line up". However, I think you are correct with changing the gender of jurado/a as you have done in your example. The gender of the adjective agrees with gender of the subject, as always, even if the noun is the same in both fem and masc.

Gracias Jeremias. You understood my question correctly. I changed "line up" to "agreement" to clarify the question. - JazSpanish, Oct 23, 2011