Adjective Agreement Question
If I wanted to use a phrase like "mainstream artists", would it be "los principales artistas" or "las principales artistas" since the word "artists" is feminine? Thanks!
3 Answers
If you refer to both male and female artists, you should say "los artistas" and for the adjective I would say "comunes" or "conocidos" depending what you mean by "mainstream."
The article and adjective both have to agree with the noun, in quantity and gender.
Las artistas principales
But, I´m not sure that´s the best translation for mainstream.
Principal is more like main, but not necessarily mainstream.
I might prefer populares for that.
I´d be curious to hear from a native or other sage.
As Julian said, you pick the gender based on the gender(s) of the artists,
Los artistas = The male (and possibly female if it's a group) artists.
El artista = The male artist.
La artista = The female artist.
Las artistas = The female artists.
By "mainstream" do you mean "everyone knows their work because they're popular"? Like the expression "That's so mainstream!"?
If so I'd say "Los artistas más populares" o :Los artistas que todo el mundo escucha.
Algo así.
