Is Capital LA or El?
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business and finance
financial industry
“La capital”, as a feminine noun, means capital as in a city. This is what you would use if you were talking about the capital city of a country. “El capital”, as a masculine noun, means capital as in finance and economics. This is what you would use if you were talking about the capital wealth of a country.
Considering this, is capital feminine or masculine?
capital = capital noun capital (Spanish adjective, masculine noun and feminine noun)
Just so, what is a capital noun?
The noun capital1 refers to a city or town that is the seat of government; to a capital letter as opposed to a lowercase letter; and to wealth or resources. The noun Capitol refers primarily to the building in Washington, D.C., in which Congress sits or to similar buildings used by state legislatures.
This is easy since most of the time if the word ends in -a it is feminine and uses la and if the word ends in -o it is masculine and uses el. But what about words like papel, or estación? One way to remember their gender is through an acronym.