Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¿Hay una opción con un mejor diseño?

¿Hay una opción con un mejor diseño?

Is there an option with a better design?

Breakdown of ¿Hay una opción con un mejor diseño?

to be (there is / there are)

con

with

Questions & Answers about ¿Hay una opción con un mejor diseño?

Why do we use mejor instead of más bueno?

Mejor is an irregular comparative adjective meaning 'better'. Just like in English we say 'better' instead of 'more good', in Spanish you must use mejor instead of más bueno.

Why is mejor placed before the noun diseño? I thought adjectives usually come after the noun.

You are right that most descriptive adjectives come after the noun in Spanish (like un diseño nuevo). However, irregular comparative adjectives like mejor (better) and peor (worse) almost always come before the noun they describe.

If the noun was feminine, would mejor change to mejora?

No, mejor does not change based on gender. Because it ends in a consonant, it stays exactly the same for both masculine and feminine nouns. For example, 'a better option' would be una mejor opción. It only changes if the noun is plural, becoming mejores.

I see hay translated as 'is there'. Does it change if we ask 'are there options' instead?

No, it stays exactly the same! Hay is the all-purpose word for 'there is', 'there are', 'is there?', and 'are there?'. It never changes to match whether the following noun is singular or plural.