Breakdown of El café parece bueno.
Questions & Answers about El café parece bueno.
Is parece one of the regular '-er' verbs from this lesson?
Yes! The infinitive (dictionary form) is parecer (to seem). Since el café is a singular 'it', we drop the -er ending and add -e to get parece. This is the exact same pattern you use for verbs like comer (to eat), which becomes come (he/she/it eats). Can I translate this as 'The coffee looks good'?
Yes, absolutely! Parecer translates to 'to seem' or 'to appear'. In English, we often say food or drink 'looks good' to mean it gives a good impression, and parece is the perfect verb to use for that in Spanish. Why do we use bueno here instead of bien?
Bueno means 'good', and it is an adjective used to describe nouns (like el café). Bien means 'well', and it is used to describe how an action is done. Since we are describing the coffee itself, we need bueno. How do I know if café is masculine or feminine since it ends in an 'e'?
Nouns that end in -e can be either masculine or feminine, so you just have to memorize their gender as you learn them. Café is masculine, which is why we use el (the) and why the adjective bueno ends in an -o to match it. Learn El café parece bueno and more in Spanish
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