Breakdown of El personal del hotel es elegantísimo.
ser
to be
el hotel
hotel
del
from the / of the
elegante
elegant
el personal
the staff
Questions & Answers about El personal del hotel es elegantísimo.
How do we form elegantísimo from the regular word for elegant?
The base adjective is elegante. To make it mean extremely elegant, we drop the final vowel (e) and add the suffix -ísimo. Notice that an accent mark is always added to the í in this ending.
Since elegante ends in -e, why does elegantísimo end in -o?
Even though elegante has the exact same form for masculine and feminine words, the suffix -ísimo always changes to match the gender of the noun. Because el personal is a masculine noun, we use the masculine ending -o. If we were describing a feminine noun, like la ropa (the clothing), it would become elegantísima.
Since a staff is made up of many people, why do we use the singular verb es instead of son?
In Spanish, collective words like el personal (the staff) or la gente (the people) are grammatically singular. Even though they refer to a group of individuals, you treat them like a single unit and must use singular verbs like es.
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