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🗓️ 10 March 2010
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An easy way of extending your range of language is by using adjectives, and this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish looks at adjectives in detail. In Spanish adjectives have to 'agree' with the word they describe and you’ll learn the rules of adjective agreements. Please note that lesson 8 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 208 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Coffee Green Expansion. Today we're on lesson 48 and in this lesson we're going |
| 0:17.4 | to be able to get another aspect of Spanish grammar. We're moving away from there to be |
| 0:21.7 | pleased to do. And this time we can add adjectives. The adjectives in Spanish have to |
| 0:27.3 | end with the noun that they qualify. That sounds a lot more complicated. This simply means |
| 0:33.1 | that if you've got a masculine noun, you have to make the adjectives masculine too. And a feminine |
| 0:38.5 | noun has to have feminine adjectives. Everything will be much clearer after you listen to this |
| 0:43.9 | legislation too. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:51.3 | So in this week's show we're going to be looking at adjectives. Adjectives, sometimes known as |
| 0:56.2 | describing words, words which tell you what something is like. We're going to start by looking at |
| 1:02.7 | sort of standard adjectives. Let's take a word for example, contento, what is contentomin? |
| 1:09.7 | Happy. Happy. Yeah. I would say I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. |
| 1:16.8 | Ok, no cara yúberense, estoy contento, what would you say? |
| 1:24.8 | Estoy contenta, contenta, so the word contento changes, because cara is female, contento, contento |
| 1:35.8 | contenta, perfecto, no, we can say, Marc, está contento, cara, está contenta, but let's |
| 1:45.5 | say we were talking about the children, los niños, los niños are happy, we've got to think |
| 1:53.9 | about two things here, first of all, the plural verb, it's not está, but, está, está, so los |
| 2:02.4 | niños, está, and what would we say for happy in this situation? |
| 2:11.2 | Los niños están contentos, los niños están contentos, so the children are happy, los |
| 2:27.4 | niños es a masculine plural noun and we're using the masculine plural adjective, if we were |
| 2:33.8 | talking about female children, las niñas, we wouldn't say contentos, but, contentas, |
| 2:44.3 | exactly, so how would you say the girls, the children are happy, las niñas están contentas, |
| 2:53.9 | muy bien, so, el hombre está contento, el hombre está contento, la mujer está contenta, |
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