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Questions & Answers about Ella está enamorada.
Why is está used instead of es?
Because estar is the normal verb used with enamorado / enamorada.
In Spanish, estar enamorado/a means to be in love. Spanish treats this as a state or condition, so estar is used, not ser.
This does not mean the feeling is necessarily short-lived. A lot of emotional or physical states use estar, even if they last a long time.
What exactly is enamorada here?
Enamorada is functioning as an adjective here, meaning in love.
It comes from the verb enamorar / enamorarse, but in this sentence it behaves like an adjective after estar:
- está cansada = she is tired
- está contenta = she is happy
- está enamorada = she is in love
So you can think of enamorada as an adjective describing her emotional state.
Why does enamorada end in -a?