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Ella compra una computadora nueva y cara.

Ella compra una computadora nueva y cara.
She buys an expensive new computer.
From Lesson 10:Adjective agreement·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Ella compra una computadora nueva y cara.

Why do nueva and cara come after computadora?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like nueva (new) and cara (expensive) almost always come after the noun they describe. While in English you say "a new computer", in Spanish you literally say "a computer new".
Why does the sentence use nueva and cara instead of nuevo and caro?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because computadora is a feminine noun (which we can see from the -a ending and the article una), the adjectives must also change their endings to the feminine forms: nueva and cara.
If there are two adjectives describing the noun, do they both have to match it?
Yes! Every single adjective describing a noun must match it in both gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). Since computadora is feminine and singular, both nueva and cara must be feminine and singular.
Is compra a noun or a verb here?
Here, it is the verb. Ella compra means "She buys", coming from the infinitive verb comprar (to buy). While la compra can mean "the purchase" as a noun, the pronoun Ella (She) right before it tells us this is an action.

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