arca de Noé

See also: Arca de Noé

Spanish

Proper noun

arca de Noé f

1. Noah's ark

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el arca de Noé, un arca de Noé

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

• “arca de Noé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014