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¡Cómo florecen los girasoles!

¡Cómo florecen los girasoles!
How the sunflowers bloom!
From Lesson 239:Exclamatory degree (¡cuánto!, ¡cómo!)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of ¡Cómo florecen los girasoles!

cómo
how
florecer
to bloom
el girasol
the sunflower

Questions & Answers about ¡Cómo florecen los girasoles!

Why do we use Cómo here instead of Cuánto?
In exclamations with verbs, cómo emphasizes the way or intensity of the action ("How beautifully they bloom!"). If you used cuánto (¡Cuánto florecen los girasoles!), it would change the meaning to focus on quantity: "How much the sunflowers bloom!"
Why is the verb (florecen) placed before the subject (los girasoles)?
In Spanish exclamations starting with words like cómo, qué, or cuánto, the verb usually comes right after the exclamatory word. Putting the subject at the end (¡Cómo florecen los girasoles!) is the most natural word order and emphasizes the action.
Is the word girasoles a compound word?
Yes, it is made up of the verb girar (to turn or spin) and the noun sol (sun). A sunflower is literally a "sun-turner"! Because the singular word girasol ends in a consonant, we add -es to make it plural (girasoles).
The verb is florecer. Doesn't this type of verb usually get a z in its conjugation?
Verbs ending in -cer (like florecer or conocer) only add a z before the c when the ending starts with an o or an a. This happens in the yo form of the present tense (yo florezco) and the present subjunctive. Since florecen is the "they" form and the ending starts with e, it stays regular.

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