Learn Spanish (Latin America): El niño ve unos pájaros bonitos.

El niño ve unos pájaros bonitos.

The boy sees some pretty birds.

Breakdown of El niño ve unos pájaros bonitos.

el niño

the boy

ver

to see / to look / appear

Questions & Answers about El niño ve unos pájaros bonitos.

Why do we use unos here instead of just saying ve pájaros bonitos?

In Spanish, when you want to say "some" or "a few," you use the plural indefinite articles unos (masculine) or unas (feminine). While in English you might skip the word "some" and just say "The boy sees pretty birds," Spanish often includes unos to sound more natural.

Why is it unos and not los or unas?

Articles must match the noun they go with in both gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). Since pájaros (birds) is a masculine plural noun, we use the masculine plural article unos (some). If we used los, it would mean "the" birds instead of "some" birds.

Why does bonitos come after pájaros?

In English, we put the describing word first (pretty birds). In Spanish, adjectives almost always come after the noun they describe. Also, notice that bonitos ends in -os to match the masculine plural noun pájaros.

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