arca de la alianza

Spanish

Noun

arca de la alianza f (uncountable)

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

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