Mi prima hace una foto de otra huella junto al corral.

Mi means my, and prima means female cousin. Spanish often uses possessives the same way English does when saying whose family member it is, so mi prima = my cousin.

Also, prima is specifically a female cousin. A male cousin would be primo.

Yes. In Spanish, nouns usually have grammatical gender, and in words like primo/prima, the ending also matches the actual sex of the person:

• primo = male cousin
• prima = female cousin

So mi prima tells you the cousin is female.

Yes, hacer usually means to do or to make, and hace is the he/she/it or you (formal) form of the present tense.

But in Spanish, hacer una foto is a very common expression meaning to take a photo. It does not translate word for word into natural English, but it is completely normal Spanish.

So:

• hacer una foto = to take a photo

In Spain, you may also hear sacar una foto, although hacer una foto is very common and standard.

Una means a/an, while la means the.

So hace una foto means she takes a photo, not the photo. The indefinite article is used because it is introducing one photo, not referring to a specific previously known one.

Also, foto is feminine, so the article must be feminine too:

• una foto
• la foto

Good question, because that can look unusual.

Foto is short for fotografía, which is feminine. Even though the shortened form ends in -o, it keeps the feminine gender:

• la foto
• una foto
• esta foto

So this is one of those vocabulary items you just learn as feminine.

Here de means of and links foto with what appears in the photo.

So:

• una foto de otra huella = a photo of another footprint/track

This is a very common structure in Spanish:

• una foto de mi perro = a photo of my dog
• una foto de la casa = a photo of the house

In Spanish, otro/otra already carries the idea of another or other, so you normally do not use un/una before it in this structure.

So:

• otra huella = another footprint/track

Not:

• una otra huella

This works the same with the masculine form:

• otro libro = another book

Huella can mean a mark, print, trace, or track, depending on context.

In a sentence like this, it most likely means:

• footprint
• track
• possibly hoofprint or animal track, if the context is rural

So the exact English word depends on what kind of mark is being described.

Because it describes huella, and huella is feminine.

In Spanish, adjectives and words like otro/otra must agree in gender and number with the noun they modify:

• otra huella = another footprint
• otro corral = another corral
• otras huellas = other footprints

Junto a means next to, beside, or close to.

In the sentence, junto al corral means:

• next to the corral
• beside the corral

The exact English choice depends on style and context, but the basic idea is physical closeness.

Because a + el contracts to al in Spanish.

So:

• junto a + el corral → junto al corral

This contraction is required in normal Spanish.

There are only two standard article contractions like this:

• a + el = al
• de + el = del

But note: this only happens with el, not with la:

• junto a la casa
  not junto ala casa

Corral usually means an animal pen, enclosure, or yard for animals. In a rural context, it is a fenced area where animals are kept.

So junto al corral suggests the footprint is near some kind of animal enclosure.

Hace is the present indicative form of hacer for él/ella/usted.

Here the subject is mi prima, which is third person singular, so the verb must be hace:

• yo hago
• tú haces
• él/ella/usted hace
• nosotros hacemos
• vosotros hacéis
• ellos/ellas/ustedes hacen

So Mi prima hace... = My cousin takes...

In this sentence, the subject is stated explicitly: Mi prima.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns like ella, but it can still use a noun phrase as the subject when needed:

• Mi prima hace una foto...

You could also say:

• Ella hace una foto...

But using mi prima is more specific and natural if you want to identify the person.

The sentence follows a very typical Spanish order:

• Mi prima = subject
• hace = verb
• una foto de otra huella = object
• junto al corral = location

So the structure is basically:

Subject + Verb + Object + Place

That is very common in both Spanish and English, even though the exact wording may differ.

In practice, it most naturally describes the location of the footprint: the photo is of another footprint next to the corral.

Grammatically, location phrases can sometimes feel slightly flexible, but here the most natural reading is:

• she takes a photo
• of another footprint
• that is next to the corral

If you wanted to make that relationship even clearer, Spanish might also say something like de otra huella que está junto al corral, but the original sentence is already natural.

It is very common in Spain, yes. A learner focusing on Spanish from Spain should definitely know it.

In other Spanish-speaking regions, you may also hear:

• tomar una foto
• sacar una foto

All are understandable, but hacer una foto is especially typical and useful for Spain Spanish.