Titles are important in Spanish, and they are used somewhat differently than their English counterparts.

1. Spanish titles are not capitalized (though their abbreviations are)
    
2. When they precede a name, Spanish titles must sometimes be preceded by the definite article
    
3. There are masculine and feminine versions of most titles

 
Spanish titles and definite articles

When speaking about a titled person in Spanish, you need to precede the title with the definite article:

However, when you are speaking to the person, you do not use the definite article:

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