El desayuno huele delicioso.

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Breakdown of El desayuno huele delicioso.

• delicioso: delicious
• oler: to smell

Questions & Answers about El desayuno huele delicioso.

Why is the article el used before desayuno?

In Spanish you normally put the definite article before meals. Desayuno is a masculine noun, so you say el desayuno. Leaving out the article (as you do in English) would sound odd to a native speaker.

Why is huele in the third-person singular?

The subject of the sentence is el desayuno (it/he), which is third-person singular. The verb oler (“to smell”) in the present indicative for él/ella/usted is huele.

Why is there no a between huele and delicioso?

Spanish uses a after oler only when the complement is a noun or pronoun (e.g. huele a humo). When you describe how something smells with an adjective, you skip a and go straight to huele + adjective.

Why does delicioso end in -o instead of -a?

Adjectives in Spanish agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. Since desayuno is masculine singular, the adjective must also be masculine singular: delicioso.