As you all probably know, most of the word ends with “a” is feminine, and of course, they take la/las/una/una as articles right? Agua is a feminine word, and it is very logical to think that this word, agua, uses feminine articles. However, this word does not take singular feminine articles, and instead, this word takes masculine singular articles. Here is why. At first, I thought that agua was a masculine word since we sometimes have masculine nouns ending with a. However, I eventually found out that it is something to do with its pronunciation and stress. When the first letter of the word is a and it is stressed, … Continue reading Why do you use el for agua and don’t use *la agua?