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agente

agent

noun ah-HEN-teh Less Common
People & Society Professions

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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