73: Spanish adjectives: Nuevo, menos, muerto, vivo
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Let's learn some essential Spanish adjectives, such as nuevo, menos, muerto, and vivo. We'll get lots of practice with these, including the nuances of when to use adjectives with Ser versus with Estar.
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| 0:00.0 | join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency i'm timothy and this is learn craft spanish let's learn a few |
| 0:16.7 | new adjectives and then use them to help us keep practicing the verb, kere. Let's begin with the word |
| 0:23.8 | menos, which means less or fewer. We've already learned |
| 0:29.6 | mass, which can be used as an adjective in situations such as |
| 0:33.6 | more things or mass |
| 0:36.0 | cosas. The word |
| 0:38.1 | menos simply means the opposite. For example, |
| 0:41.4 | but we would have less time. |
| 0:47.6 | The word |
| 0:48.4 | less time. The word |
| 0:53.3 | menos doesn't change based on what it's describing. |
| 0:57.2 | This was true of mass as well. |
| 1:00.7 | So even if you're describing something feminine and plural, the word doesn't change. |
| 1:06.6 | For example, there are fewer houses here. |
| 1:18.0 | There are menos casks. For example, there are fewer houses here. Our next adjective is the word |
| 1:20.7 | Nuevo, which means new. |
| 1:24.4 | This adjective is very easy to use, |
| 1:26.8 | and it's pretty conventional in that it does change |
| 1:30.1 | based on the number and gender of the thing it describes. For example, here are the new things. |
| 1:40.5 | This word sometimes occurs before a noun and sometimes after. |
| 1:51.1 | New Things is sometimes translated as Newas Cossas and sometimes as Cossas. |
| 1:59.3 | In general, we put it before the noun to clarify which of something we're |
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