Learn Spanish (Latin America): La sopa está sabrosísima y el pescado está riquísimo. - The soup is extremely tasty and the fish is extremely delicious.

La sopa está sabrosísima y el pescado está riquísimo.

The soup is extremely tasty and the fish is extremely delicious.

Breakdown of La sopa está sabrosísima y el pescado está riquísimo.

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estar

to be (location/state)

Questions & Answers about La sopa está sabrosísima y el pescado está riquísimo.

Why does rico change to riquísimo instead of "ricísimo"?

In Spanish, the letter c sounds like an "s" when it comes before an i or an e. If we just added -ísimo to rico, it would sound like "ri-SEE-si-mo". To keep the hard "k" sound from the original word, the c changes to qu, giving us riquísimo.

Why do the endings for the -ísimo words not match each other here (sabrosísima vs riquísimo)?

Even with the extreme -ísimo suffix attached, adjectives still have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because la sopa (the soup) is feminine, sabrosa becomes sabrosísima. Because el pescado (the fish) is masculine, rico becomes riquísimo.

Why does this sentence use está instead of es?

When talking about food, using the verb estar (like está here) means you are reacting to how a specific dish tastes right now. If you used es, you would be talking about a permanent characteristic, saying that soup or fish, as a general concept, is always delicious.

Why use pescado here instead of pez?