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La mesa es bastante grande y tenemos suficiente comida.

La mesa es bastante grande y tenemos suficiente comida.
The table is quite big and we have enough food.
From Lesson 72:Adverbs of quantity (demasiado, bastante)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about La mesa es bastante grande y tenemos suficiente comida.

I thought bastante meant "enough". Why does it translate to "quite" here?
Bastante is a flexible word! When it is used with a noun, it means "enough" or "plenty" (like bastante tiempo for "enough time"). But when it comes right before an adjective, like grande in this sentence, it acts as an adverb meaning "quite" or "fairly".
If we were talking about multiple tables, would bastante become plural (bastantes)?
Not in this case! Because bastante is acting as an adverb here (describing how big the table is), it never changes its form. If you said "the tables are quite big", it would be las mesas son bastante grandes.
Why doesn't suficiente change to suficienta to match the feminine word comida?
Adjectives that end in "e", like suficiente or inteligente, have the exact same form for both masculine and feminine nouns. It would only change if the noun was plural (becoming suficientes), but comida is singular.
Could I say bastante comida instead of suficiente comida?
Yes, absolutely. When describing nouns, bastante and suficiente both mean "enough" and can usually be swapped without changing the meaning.
Why do we use es instead of está for "is quite big"?
We use es (from the verb ser) because the size of the table is considered a basic physical characteristic or permanent description, rather than a temporary state or condition.

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