# 08. Descriptive Adjectives

- **Time range:** 00:32:28 – 00:35:52  (duration 00:03:24)
- **Source:** [A Complete Guide To Every Fundamental In Spanish (The Conclusion)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHDZSHCt1DE&t=1948s)

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives:

**[00:32:28]** different types of adjectives and in this video I would like to explain how descriptive adjectives work in context and by descriptive adjectives I mean adjectives that physically or

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: adjectives that physically or conditionally describe something or someone

**[00:32:36]** conditionally describe something or someone in Spanish all adjectives have

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: e alto/a(s) - tall ¢ bajo/a(s) - short ¢ bonito/a(s) - beautiful e feo/a(s) - ugly

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: facil/faciles - easy ¢ dificil/dificiles - difficult ¢ importante(s) - important e inteligente(s) - intelligent/smart

**[00:32:41]** of a few words that have a neutral ending but still follow plurality

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: e alto/a(s) - tall ¢ bajo/a(s) - short ¢ bonito/a(s) - beautiful e feo/a(s) - ugly

**[00:32:44]** adjectives ending in O are masculine adjectives ending in a are feminine and

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: facil/faciles - easy ¢ dificil/dificiles - difficult e importante(s) - important e inteligente(s) - intelligent/smart

**[00:32:48]** neutral adjectives vary based on whoever the subject is of the sentence if you want to say that you are tall and

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: | am tall and beautiful

**[00:32:53]** beautiful you would say y Alto I Bonito

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: | am tall and beautiful Yo soy alto y bonito (m)

**[00:32:56]** if you're referring to someone that's masculine and ala ionita would refer to

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: | am tall and beautiful Yo soy alto y bonito (m) Yo soy alta y bonita (f)

**[00:32:59]** someone who is feminine if you were to

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: They are ugly (m)

**[00:33:00]** say that they are ugly and masculine you would say AOS fos because now there are

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: They are ugly (m) Ellos son feos (m)

**[00:33:05]** multiple people which generates plurality if you were to work with

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: These classes are easy

**[00:33:08]** adjectives that have a neutral ending and say a sentence like these classes are easy you would say estas classes fil

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: These classes are easy Estas clases son faciles

**[00:33:14]** by adding an Es at the end of the adjective to fit the plurality of the sentence if you were to say we are

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: We are intelligent Nosotros somos inteligentes

**[00:33:18]** intelligent you would say no intentes because the ending of the adjective matches the plurality of the sentence the same exact principle applies to any pronoun and adjective you would like to use however taking simple sentences like

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives:

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The boy is smart El chico es inteligente

**[00:33:30]** the boy is smar in might make learning too impractical because you're generating sentences that are too easy to say or sentences that are not said as often as others if you were to instead say the smart boy this is where the

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy

**[00:33:41]** syntax would start changing positions in the sentence you would want to say El intell Cho the smart boy but this would

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El inteligente chico

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El inteligente chico

**[00:33:47]** be a mistake in Spanish because Spanish has a rule that says you have to put

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El inteligente chico

**[00:33:50]** nouns before adjectives in order to determine the subject from something else so instead of saying El int Cho you would say El Cho int which technically

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El chico inteligente

**[00:33:58]** would translate as the boy smart but

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El chico inteligente The boy smart

**[00:34:00]** logically speaking it means the boy that is smart but this is not included in

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El chico inteligente The boy that is smart

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: The smart boy El chico inteligente The boy thatis smart

**[00:34:03]** Spanish because it doesn't need to in English whenever you're describing

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> English Descriptive Adjectives: This important video - Este video importante The difficult lesson - La lecci6n dificil

**[00:34:06]** subjects you put adjectives before nouns but in Spanish you have to put adjectives after nouns because it's a rule in the language and once again the same principle applies to any noun and adjective you want to use there is

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives:

**[00:34:15]** however an important rule to consider whenever you're referring to adjectives that are used factually and physically about oneself and an adjective that is a condition that changes over time in English you may have sentences like I am

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> English Descriptive Adjectives: | am short lam tired

**[00:34:25]** short and I am tired and both of these

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> English Descriptive Adjectives: | am short | am tired

**[00:34:27]** sentences use the same conjugated form of the verb to be in this case I am because in English we don't care about the continuation of the sentence as long as we use the properly conjugated form of to be to match the corresponding pronoun in Spanish however you have to

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: | am short lam tired Yo soy bajo Yo estoy cansado

**[00:34:38]** watch out for these things because these sentences contain two senses of being

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: | am short | am tired Yo soy bajo Yo estoy cansado ser (physical and estar (emotion factual trait) that changes)

**[00:34:41]** one using a physical and factual trait about yourself while the other expresses an emotion that you feel which will change in the future and with descriptive adjectives the same rule

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: La chica hermosa - The beautiful girl La chica es hermosa - The girl is beautiful El hombre relajado - The relaxed man El hombre esta relajado - The man is relaxed

**[00:34:48]** applies for both adjectives that apply factually and conditionally the only challenge is figuring out whether to use S or estar with physical traits and conditions and emotions la Osa the beautiful girl can also be said asosa the girl is beautiful which uses said to factually describe the subject the relaxed man can also be as the man is relaxed which uses the verb to express the emotional condition of the subject and with these being

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: ser: estar: ° alto/a(s) ¢ aburrido/a(s) © bajo/a(s) ® cansando/a(s) ¢ bonito/a(s) ¢ enfermo/a(s) ° feo/a(s) listo/a(s) facil/faciles ° seguro/a(s) ¢ dificil/dificiles © preparado/a(s) ¢ importante(s) e relajado/a(s) e inteligentes(s) ° triste(s)

**[00:35:15]** physical traits that are used with s and these being conditions that are used with estar these are all commonly used descriptive adjectives that you can use to construct sentences on a daily basis all you simply do is choose any pronoun you want to use select any AD and then remember which verb to use when describing something or somebody for

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: He is smart

**[00:35:30]** example if you want to say that he is smart you would say LS intell because

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: He is smart El es inteligente

**[00:35:34]** the word s is the correctly conjugated form of said of the he pronoun being used to express a factual statement

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: We are sad

**[00:35:39]** likewise if you want to say we are sad you would say noos estamos tristes and

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> Spanish Descriptive Adjectives: We are sad Nosotros estamos tristes

**[00:35:44]** you would use EST as the conjugated form of the wi pronoun because EST is used for emotions that change over time and you would also pluralize trist because you have plurality in the sentence
