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Three Step Spanish - Learn #5 - How to Describe Something in Spanish - Grammar

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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learn to describe something in Spanish

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Let's look at the sentence pattern. This pattern is the structure that all of our examples will follow.

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Subject is very adjective. Subject is very adjective.

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This sentence structure is used to describe a subject by stating what subject is like.

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First we have the subject, which is the thing or person being described.

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This could be a noun phrase, a pronoun or a proper noun.

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Next is S, which comes from the verb ser.

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This verb means to be, and is used to describe essential qualities.

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Then we have the adjective, which tell us something about the subject.

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Optionally, we can add very, which means very, to emphasize the adjective.

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Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern.

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Well, this is very rapid.

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Well, this one is very fast.

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In this sentence,

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this is the subject, meaning this one.

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It is a demonstrative pronoun referring to something specific that has already been mentioned.

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In the dialogue, it's the computer, computadora, a feminine singular noun. Thus, the

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demonstrative pronoun esta will be feminine as well.

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Es is the verb ser in the third person singular form meaning to be.

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Muay is used for emphasis meaning very.

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Rapida is the adjective meaning fast.

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Since this refers to a feminine noun, Rapida also takes adjective meaning fast. Since this refers to a feminine noun,

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Rapida also takes the feminine form.

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