{"id":53472,"date":"2020-09-28T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/?p=53472"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:50:28","slug":"spanish-adjectives-and-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/spanish-adjectives-and-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Adjectives and Transport: Spanish Lesson 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the twenty-eighth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at Spanish Adjectives and Transport.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In our previous lesson we learned some useful Spanish Transport Vocabulary and how to conjugate the Spanish Verb Ir (To go)<\/a>. We will use the same vocabulary in this lesson to practice Spanish Adjectives and Transport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Adjetivos (Adjectives)<\/h3>\n

We have seen Spanish adjectives a few times already in the course. Adjectives are words that add description to other words (e.g. size and shape<\/a>, age, colour<\/a>, origin, material). In English, adjectives typically come before the nouns they describe whereas in Spanish adjectives come after the noun (e.g. long hair: pelo largo\/hair long).<\/p>\n

Masculine, Feminine, and Plural Nouns<\/h3>\n

We know that every noun (thing) in Spanish is either masculine or feminine (El<\/em> or La<\/em>). It is important to be aware of the gender of each noun you are using as other elements of your sentence will need to be altered according to this. Some adjectives change according to the gender of the word they describe and all change depending upon whether the word they describe is singular or plural.<\/p>\n

With adjectives that end in \u2013O you change their ending to \u2013A if you are describing a female thing. When describing singular things with adjectives that don\u2019t finish in \u2013O you don\u2019t change the ending of the adjective.<\/p>\n

You add \u2013OS if you are describing more than one masculine thing and \u2013AS if you are describing more than one female thing. When describing more than one thing you add \u2013ES to the adjective if it ends in a consonant and \u2013S if it ends in a vowel.<\/p>\n

Let’s review the Spanish Transport Vocabulary we learned in the previous lesson:<\/h3>\n

El tren: train
\nEl avi\u00f3n: plane
\nEl barco: ship
\nLa bicicleta: bicycle
\nEl coche: car
\nEl autob\u00fas: bus
\nEl metro: underground
\nEl tranv\u00eda: tram
\nLa motocicleta: motorbike<\/p>\n

\"Spanish<\/p>\n

Next let’s learn some new Spanish adjectives useful for describing transport and travelling:<\/h3>\n

R\u00e1pido: fast
\nLento: slow
\nBarato: cheap
\nCaro: expensive
\nC\u00f3modo: comfortable
\nInc\u00f3modo: uncomfortable
\nEcol\u00f3gico: ecological
\nContaminante: contaminating
\nPeligroso: dangerous
\nSeguro: safe
\nPuntual: punctual<\/p>\n

Let’s practice making some sentences using these Spanish Adjectives:<\/h3>\n

El avi\u00f3n es r\u00e1pido: the plane is fast
\nLos aviones son r\u00e1pidos: planes are fast.
\nEl avi\u00f3n es muy contaminante: the plane is very contaminating
\nLos aviones son muy contaminantes: planes are very contaminating
\nEl avi\u00f3n es r\u00e1pido, pero muy contaminante: the plane is fast, but very contaminating.
\nLos aviones son r\u00e1pidos, pero muy contaminantes: planes are fast, but very contaminating.
\nLa bicicleta es lenta: the bicycle is slow.
\nLas bicicletas son lentas: bicycles are slow.
\nLa bicicleta no es contaminante: the bicycle is not contaminating.
\nLas bicicletas no son contaminantes: bicycles are not contaminating.<\/p>\n

Observe how some of the adjectives change their endings depending on the noun (thing) they describe. For example, Bicicleta (bicycle) is a feminine noun, so Slow<\/em> for a bicycle is Lenta<\/em>. Coche is a masculine noun, so Slow<\/em> for a car is Lento<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In our next lesson we will practice more with Spanish adjectives. We will learn some useful structures for making comparisons in Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the twenty-eighth lesson in our beginner level Spanish course and we will look at Spanish Adjectives and Transport. In our previous lesson we learned some useful Spanish Transport Vocabulary and how to conjugate the Spanish Verb Ir (To go). We will use the same vocabulary in this lesson to practice Spanish Adjectives and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1391,1516,1652],"class_list":["post-53472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spanish-lessons","tag-beginner-spanish-lessons","tag-learn-spanish","tag-spanish-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53481,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53472\/revisions\/53481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}