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Questions & Answers about El título está subrayado.
Why does the sentence use está instead of es?
Spanish often uses estar + past participle to describe the resulting state of something.
So El título está subrayado means the title is in an underlined state.
- estar = to be, in a state or condition
- subrayado = underlined
If you used es subrayado, it would sound unnatural here. Spanish normally prefers estar when talking about how something looks or has been left after an action.
What exactly is subrayado here?
Subrayado is the past participle of the verb subrayar, which means to underline.
- subrayar = to underline
- subrayado = underlined
In this sentence, subrayado works like an adjective describing el título.
Why does subrayado end in -o?