La tortilla de patata quedó muy buena.

good

Breakdown of La tortilla de patata quedó muy buena.

• muy: very
• de: of
• la tortilla: the omelette

Questions & Answers about La tortilla de patata quedó muy buena.

Why is quedó used here? What does quedar mean in this sentence?

Here quedar means to turn out or to come out in the sense of a final result.

So La tortilla de patata quedó muy buena means something like:

• The potato omelette turned out very well / very good

This is a very common use of quedar in Spanish when talking about how something ends up after being made, cooked, arranged, written, etc.

Examples:

• La cena quedó fantástica. — The dinner turned out fantastic.
• El dibujo quedó muy bonito. — The drawing turned out very nice.
• La habitación quedó perfecta. — The room ended up perfect.

So this is not the quedar of to meet up or to stay. It is the result meaning.

Why is it quedó and not queda?

Quedó is the preterite form, used for a completed action or finished result in the past.

• queda = present: it turns out / it is left / it ends up
• quedó = past: it turned out

Since the sentence talks about a tortilla that has already been made and we are now describing the result, the past tense makes sense:

• La tortilla quedó muy buena. — The tortilla turned out very good.

If you said queda muy buena, it would usually sound more general, like a recipe comment:

• Con cebolla, la tortilla queda muy buena. — With onion, the tortilla turns out very good.

Why is buena feminine?