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Nosotros necesitamos unas sillas pequeñas aquí.

Nosotros necesitamos unas sillas pequeñas aquí.
We need some small chairs here.
From Lesson 8:Plural articles (los, las, unos, unas)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Nosotros necesitamos unas sillas pequeñas aquí.

necesitar
to need
nosotros
we
unas
some (feminine)
la silla
the chair
pequeño
small
aquí
here

Questions & Answers about Nosotros necesitamos unas sillas pequeñas aquí.

Why do we use unas instead of unos here?
Because the article has to match the word it goes with! Sillas (chairs) is a feminine plural noun, so the word for "some" must also be feminine and plural, which is unas. If we were talking about a masculine word like libros (books), we would use unos.
Does unas always translate to "some"?
Yes, unas (and its masculine partner unos) usually translates to "some" or "a few." It is simply the plural version of una (a/an), which changes the meaning from "a chair" (una silla) to "some chairs" (unas sillas).
Why does the word for small (pequeñas) come after the chairs (sillas)?
In Spanish, describing words (adjectives) usually come right after the thing they describe. So instead of "small chairs," we say "chairs small" (sillas pequeñas). Notice that pequeñas also ends in -as so its gender and number perfectly match the feminine plural noun sillas.
Could I leave out Nosotros and just start the sentence with Necesitamos?
Yes, you can completely drop it! The ending of the verb (-amos) already tells us that "we" are the ones who need them. Spanish speakers usually leave out subject pronouns like yo or nosotros unless they want to add extra emphasis.

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