"why el agua?"
As I learnt here, the words having an 'a' at last is Feminine gender. and to put a definite article in front of it we should use La or las, but when it comes to agua. why is it 'el Agua' why not 'la agua'??
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"El problema, el clima, el tema, el sofá," etc are masculine gender words out of the ordinary and memorized for article usage.
"El agua, el alma, el hambre, el águila" and any other femine gender word that starts with a stressed "a" sound use "el" to avoid running together the pronunciation of the stressed sylable with "la". These words do not need to be memorized; you need to know the rule. This only happens in singular, note the plural; "las almas, las águilas" etc.
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Hello, Sonarisa. I hope you are enjoying using our Spanish Dict website
The teaching that Paralee gives in her video/s abour articles and the information about words ending in a being feminine while those ending in o being masculine, are just guidelines! There are exceptions to these rules like there are, I suspect, in most other languages of the world.
El agua = water is just one exception among many others. This is just the way that languages work!
Other examples include: el problema = the problem, and el águila = the eagle
It is important to learn nouns such as el agua together with their articles and not separately as doing this last thing is likely to cause great confusion later on!
I hope this helps you
