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Pintaron un grafiti muy feo en el callejón.

Pintaron un grafiti muy feo en el callejón.
They painted a very ugly graffiti in the alley.
From Lesson 245:Impersonal third-person plural (dicen que)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Pintaron un grafiti muy feo en el callejón.

Since we don't know who painted it, why do we use the "they" form pintaron?
This is a great example of the impersonal 3rd-person plural. In Spanish, when the person who did an action is unknown or doesn't matter, you can just use the "they" form of the verb without a subject pronoun like ellos. It translates nicely to "Someone painted..." or the general "They painted..." in English.
In English, "graffiti" is usually an uncountable noun. How does it work in Spanish?
In Spanish, grafiti is treated as a regular, countable masculine noun. Because of this, you use un grafiti to talk about a single piece of graffiti. If there were several pieces, you would pluralize it and say unos grafitis.
Could I put the adjective first and say un muy feo grafiti?
No, it sounds much more natural to say un grafiti muy feo. In Spanish, descriptive adjectives (especially when modified by words like muy) almost always go right after the noun they describe.
Why does the word callejón have a written accent mark?
Words that end in a vowel, n, or s naturally stress the second-to-last syllable. Since callejón is pronounced with the stress on the final syllable (-jón), it needs a written accent mark to show that it breaks that natural rule. Fun fact: if you make it plural (callejones), the natural stress lands exactly where it should, and the accent mark disappears!

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