La bolsa está en un cajón profundo que casi nadie abre.

The bag is in a deep drawer that almost no one opens.

Breakdown of La bolsa está en un cajón profundo que casi nadie abre.

• un: a
• en: in
• estar: to be
• abrir: to open

Questions & Answers about La bolsa está en un cajón profundo que casi nadie abre.

Why is está used instead of es in this sentence?

Spanish has two verbs “to be”: ser and estar. You use estar (here está) for locations or temporary states. Since the sentence tells us where the bag is, we use está, not es.

What does cajón mean, and why is it masculine?

Cajón means “drawer” (or “crate,” “box,” depending on context). In Spanish, most nouns ending in -ón are masculine, so we say el cajón and un cajón.

Why is the adjective profundo placed after cajón? Could I say un profundo cajón?

Spanish adjectives usually follow the noun: cajón profundo. Placing profundo before (un profundo cajón) is grammatically correct but sounds more formal or poetic. In everyday speech you’ll almost always hear un cajón profundo (or un cajón muy profundo to add emphasis).

What role does que play in …que casi nadie abre?

Here que is a relative pronoun introducing a defining (restrictive) clause describing un cajón profundo. It means “that” or “which” in English and links the main clause to the clause that follows.