Breakdown of La sala es lindísima y tiene una vista hermosísima.
ser
to be
y
and
tener
to have
un
a, an (masculine)
la sala
the living room
lindo
pretty
hermoso
beautiful (handsome, lovely)
la vista
the view
Questions & Answers about La sala es lindísima y tiene una vista hermosísima.
How did linda and hermosa turn into lindísima and hermosísima?
To use the -ísimo or -ísima ending (meaning "extremely" or "super"), you first drop the final vowel of the adjective. So, linda becomes lind-, and then you add -ísima to get lindísima. Since sala (living room) and vista (view) are both feminine nouns, we use the feminine -ísima ending for both adjectives.
Why do lindísima and hermosísima have written accent marks?
The suffixes -ísimo and -ísima always take a written accent mark on the first í. This shows that the spoken stress falls on that specific syllable. Without the accent mark, normal Spanish pronunciation rules would naturally put the stress on the second-to-last syllable (the si), which would sound incorrect.
Could I just say muy linda and muy hermosa instead?
Why does the sentence use es instead of está to say the living room "is" extremely pretty?
We use es (from the verb ser) because being pretty is treated as a permanent, inherent characteristic of this room's design. If you used está (from the verb estar), it would imply the room just looks pretty right now as a temporary state, perhaps because it was recently cleaned or specially decorated.
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