Questions & Answers about El hijo de la tía es joven.
Why does the Spanish sentence say El hijo de la tía instead of using an apostrophe like "la tía's hijo"?
Why do we use es instead of está for someone who is young? Isn't age temporary?
Even though youth doesn't last forever, Spanish treats being young (joven) or old (viejo) as a basic characteristic of a person rather than a temporary state or mood. Because it describes a core physical trait, we use es (from the verb ser) instead of está (from estar).
If the aunt had a daughter (la hija), would joven change to "jovena"?
Do I need to include la before tía? Could I just say El hijo de tía?