Learn Spanish (Latin America): Voy a revisar ese mensaje extraño. - I am going to check that strange message.

Voy a revisar ese mensaje extraño.

I am going to check that strange message.

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Why is it voy a revisar and not just voy revisar?

When you want to say you are going to do something in Spanish, you use a form of ir (to go) + a + the action verb in its basic form. The little word a is always required to connect voy and revisar.

Why does it use ese instead of eso for "that"?

Ese is used directly before a masculine singular noun like mensaje. You only use eso when you are talking about an unknown or abstract concept without naming the specific noun, for example if you just ask "What is that?"

How do I know if mensaje is masculine or feminine since it ends in "e"?

Mensaje is masculine. A helpful trick for beginners is that almost all Spanish nouns ending in -aje (like viaje or garaje) are masculine.

Why is extraño placed after mensaje?

In English, we put the describing word first, like "strange message". In Spanish, the normal rule is to put the describing word (the adjective) after the noun it describes, giving us mensaje extraño.