arca de la alianza

Spanish

Noun

arca de la alianza f (uncountable)

1. the Ark of the Covenant

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 la alianza, un arca de la alianza

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

Further reading

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