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Old May 23, 2017, 09:01 PM
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Activada or activado?

Hi,

I need a translation for the term "Emergency Stop Activated".
In my opinion, it would be "Parada de emergencia activada"

But unfortunately, I can also find a lot of examples where 'activado' was used:
http://www.linguee.com/english-spani...Stop+Activated

However, there are also examples for 'activada':
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles...+activada.html

I assume, only one form is correct.

Thanks a lot for any help and kind regards
Alex
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Old May 23, 2017, 09:37 PM
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Both are correct depending on context. In Spanish nouns have gender and the adjective which describes the noun must have the same gender. Activado/o is the adjective in this case. When the noun it describes is feminine, then the adjective is activada. When masculine, it's activado.
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The first example in the first link is the sentence pair:

English: The lift cannot be charged with the emergency stop button activated.
Spanish: Esta grúa no se puede cargar con el botón de parada de emergencia activado.

The noun phrase that "activado" modifies is "el botón de parada de emergencia" = "the emergency stop button". The object that is activated is "the button" = "el botón", which is a masculine noun.

In the third example at that link, the sentence pair is:

English: Check that the emergency stop has not been activated.
Spanish: Compruebe que la parada de emergencia no está activada.

In this case the phrase "la parada de emergencia" doesn't modify another noun; rather, it is the feminine singular noun that is the subject of the verb "estar", and the adjective "activada" agrees with it.
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Thanks guys!

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Old July 25, 2017, 07:32 AM
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yes the context is key with spanish! a veces pienso que hay idiomas mas faciles que no tienen feminina y masculino
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