Spanish C1 · Day 6
Day 6: Sindicatos y participación — Epicene agreement
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Epicene agreement
- Reading: La representación en el trabajo fragmentado: sindicatos y participación hoy
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Grammar point: Epicene agreement
At CEFR C1, you're learning to express reference to people with greater precision and consistency, especially in formal and academic contexts. One subtle but essential point is the concordancia de los sustantivos epicenos . An epicene noun keeps a single grammatical gender, whether it designates a man or a woman, and agreement follows that gender rather than the sex of the referent.
Key vocabulary (8 of 20 words)
- la cogestión (solo sing.) – co-management
- la sección sindical, -es – union section
- la representación unitaria, -es – employee representation
- el estatuto laboral, -s – labour statute
- la concertación social (solo sing.) – social concertation
- la patronal, -es – employers' association
- la representación de intereses (solo sing.) – in-company representation of interests
- la composición paritaria (solo sing.) – equal representation (e.g., of seats)
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