La maceta colgante recibe sol por la mañana.

Because maceta is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it takes the feminine singular article la.

• la maceta = the flowerpot / plant pot
• If it were masculine, it would use el

This is something you usually have to learn with the noun itself: la maceta.

Maceta usually means flowerpot, plant pot, or planter.

In this sentence, it refers to the container holding the plant, not the plant itself. So la maceta colgante is a hanging plant pot / hanging planter.

In Spanish, descriptive adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• la maceta colgante = the hanging pot

This is the normal word order in Spanish. Putting the adjective before the noun is much less common here and would sound unusual.

Because colgante is an adjective that often has the same form for masculine and feminine.

So you get:

• el adorno colgante
• la maceta colgante

The article changes to match gender, but colgante itself stays the same.

Recibe is from the verb recibir, which means to receive.

Here, though, it sounds more natural in English as:

• gets sun
• receives sunlight
• gets morning sun

So recibe sol is a natural Spanish way to say that the pot is in a place where sunlight reaches it.

In Spanish, when talking about getting sunlight in a general sense, it is very common to say recibir sol without an article.

So:

• recibe sol = gets sun / gets sunlight

If you said recibe el sol, it could sound more specific, like it receives the sun’s rays in a more literal or marked way. In everyday speech, recibe sol is the more natural phrasing.

Yes. Recibe is the third-person singular present tense of recibir.

Conjugation:

• yo recibo
• tú recibes
• él / ella / usted recibe

In this sentence, the subject is la maceta colgante, which is singular, so Spanish uses recibe.

Por la mañana means in the morning.

This is a very common Spanish expression:

• por la mañana = in the morning
• por la tarde = in the afternoon / evening
• por la noche = at night / in the evening

You should learn por la mañana as a fixed phrase. Even though por often means for, by, or through, here the whole expression simply means in the morning.

Yes, in much of Latin America, en la mañana is also used and understood.

But there is a small difference:

• por la mañana is the most standard, neutral way to say in the morning
• en la mañana is common in many Latin American regions, especially in everyday speech

So for learners, por la mañana is a very safe choice everywhere.

The ñ is a different letter from n in Spanish.

• mañana = morning / tomorrow
• manana is not the same word and is considered incorrect in standard Spanish

The ñ sounds like the ny in canyon for many English speakers.

So mañana is pronounced roughly like mah-NYAH-nah.

Yes, mañana can mean either:

• morning
• tomorrow

The phrase por la mañana clearly means in the morning, so there is no ambiguity here.

Examples:

• Mañana voy al mercado. = Tomorrow I’m going to the market.
• Trabajo por la mañana. = I work in the morning.

Yes. A very common everyday alternative is:

• A la maceta colgante le da el sol por la mañana.

Literally, that is something like the sun hits the hanging pot in the morning, but naturally it means the hanging pot gets morning sun.

So both are natural, but:

• recibe sol sounds a bit more descriptive or neutral
• le da el sol is very common in everyday speech

Literally, it refers to the pot/planter itself.

But in real-life usage, people may sometimes use it loosely to refer to the whole hanging plant setup, depending on context.

If you want to be more explicit, you could say:

• la planta en maceta colgante = the plant in a hanging pot
• la maceta colgante = the hanging planter / hanging pot

The structure is:

• La maceta colgante = subject
• recibe = verb
• sol = thing received
• por la mañana = time expression

So it follows a very common pattern:

subject + verb + noun + time phrase

That makes it a useful model for building similar sentences, such as:

• La sala recibe luz natural por la tarde.
• El balcón recibe sol todo el día.