agente
agent
noun ah-HEN-teh Less Common
Origin: From Latin agens, 'acting', present participle of agere.
Also means
officer (police/intelligence)
Usage Note
Agente is a common-gender noun — el agente / la agente — so the article marks the sex without changing the word form. It covers a real-estate agent (agente inmobiliario), a secret agent, a police officer (agente de policía), and a grammatical agent (the doer of an action). Do not confuse with agencia (agency, the organisation).
Examples
"El agente revisó los documentos."
Natural Translation
The agent checked the documents.
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