El hombre ciego cruza la calle.

The blind man crosses the street.

Breakdown of El hombre ciego cruza la calle.

• cruzar: to cross
• la calle: the street
• el hombre: the man
• ciego: blind

Questions & Answers about El hombre ciego cruza la calle.

Why does the sentence start with El?

El is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

It matches hombre, which is a masculine singular noun:

• el hombre = the man

In Spanish, articles are used very often, sometimes more often than in English, so El hombre ciego sounds natural for the blind man.

Why is it hombre ciego and not ciego hombre?

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• el hombre ciego = the blind man

This is the normal word order:

• noun + adjective

If you put the adjective before the noun, it often sounds poetic, literary, or changes the emphasis. For a basic descriptive sentence, hombre ciego is the standard form.

Why is it ciego and not ciega?

Because hombre is a masculine noun, the adjective has to agree with it in gender and number.

Agreement here works like this:

• hombre ciego = masculine singular
• mujer ciega = feminine singular
• hombres ciegos = masculine plural
• mujeres ciegas = feminine plural

So ciego matches hombre.