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¡Qué pasarela tan impecable!

¡Qué pasarela tan impecable!
What an impeccable runway!
From Lesson 212:Exclamations of degree (¡Qué... tan...!)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¡Qué pasarela tan impecable!

Why do we use tan here? Doesn't tan usually mean "so"?
In regular statements, tan does mean "so". But in exclamations starting with qué, adding tan or más before the adjective is the standard formula to emphasize the description. Together, qué + noun + tan + adjective creates the English equivalent of "What a [adjective] [noun]!"
Why is there no una before pasarela?
English uses "a" or "an" in exclamations like "What an impeccable runway!", but Spanish drops the article entirely. You simply use qué followed directly by the noun.
Pasarela is feminine. Why doesn't impecable change to match its gender?
Adjectives that end in -e, like impecable, grande, or interesante, are gender-neutral in Spanish. They use the exact same form for both masculine and feminine nouns.
What other kinds of runways or paths does pasarela refer to?
Besides a fashion catwalk, a pasarela frequently refers to a pedestrian footbridge, an overpass, or the passenger boarding bridge you walk through to get onto an airplane.

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