Dec. 14, 2007 - Describing people-parte uno
When you talk with Spanish speakers, sooner or later you will be called upon to describe someone. You will also need to understand when someone is described to you.
This blog entry could turn into a book (if I had the time - ha!), so I have purposefully simplified it. This is just parte uno, and there will be parte dos, parte tres, etc, in the future.
Let's start out with a basic list of people to talk about:
- el hombre - the man
- la mujer - the woman
- el niño - the little boy
- la niña - the little girl
- el/la chico/a - the kid
- el/la adolescente - the teenager
- el/la bébe - the baby
For our verb we will use our trusty friend es to say "is", and remember that the plural form is son.
The last part of our formula looks like this, the adjective:
- listo/a - smart
- simpatico/a - nice, friendly
- alto/a - tall
- bajo/a - short
- aburrido/a - boring
- dulce - sweet
- guapo - handsome
- hermosa - beautiful
- gordo/a - fat, chubby
- delgado/a - thin, slender
- amable - kind
- cariñoso/a - loving
Note: Your adjective will always modify your noun! An adjective with an -o ending describes a masculine noun, while an -a ending describes a feminine noun. An -s is added to your adjective when the noun is plural. An adjective such as amable or dulce does not change to masculine or feminine forms, but does take an -s when it is used to describe a plural noun.
So here is our formula: Noun + es (son) + adjective = you did it, you described someone!
Examples:
- El bébe es gordo.
- La mujer es lista.
- Los adolescentes son simpaticos.
- El chico es guapo.
- El hombre es alto.
- La niña es cariñosa.
- Las mujeres son amables.
- Los bébes son dulces.
- Los hombres son simpaticos.
- La adolescente es baja.
To be continued.......
