Where Spanish Puts Descriptions

In Spanish, adjectives go AFTER the noun they describe. Instead of "the global situation," you say "the situation global": la situación global. Instead of "digital camera," you say cámara digital. There's some flexibility for emphasis, but after the noun is the standard position.

We also need the indefinite articles: un (a, masculine) and una (a, feminine). So we now have: el/la = the, un/una = a.

Spanish has many words for "car" depending on where you are — it's one of those words that varies a lot between dialects, but everyone understands all of them:

The gender belongs to the WORD, not the object. Coche is masculine (el coche), máquina is feminine (la máquina), auto is masculine (el auto) — but they all refer to the same thing: a car.

Grande = big (think "grand"). Rojo = red (j = /kh/ sound, spelled r-o-j-o). En = in / on / at.

When adjectives become plural, they add -s just like nouns: grande → grandes, rojo → rojos.

This lesson also practices the shortcut verbs (puedo, quiero, tengo que, debo) — even though sentences like puedes ver el coche grande are longer than ves el coche grande, they're actually easier to build because puedo/quiero are so practiced by now and the second verb stays in the "to" form.

New vocabulary

Sentences practiced