Word
Ella está tejiendo una bufanda azul.
Meaning
She is knitting a blue scarf.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ella está tejiendo una bufanda azul.
ella
she
una
a, an (feminine)
azul
blue
estar
to be (location/state)
Questions & Answers about Ella está tejiendo una bufanda azul.
Why use está tejiendo instead of just teje?
How is the word tejiendo formed?
It comes from the regular verb tejer (to knit or weave). To make the Spanish equivalent of an "-ing" word (called a gerund) for an -er or -ir verb, you simply drop the ending and add -iendo.
Why does azul come after bufanda?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like colors almost always come after the noun they describe. So, instead of "blue scarf", the word order is literally "scarf blue" (bufanda azul).
Since bufanda is feminine, shouldn't the adjective azul change to match it?