Breakdown of El hermano es igual de tímido que su hermana, pero tiene un carácter fuerte.
ser
to be
de
from / of
pero
but
el hermano
the brother
la hermana
the sister
tener
to have
un
a, an (masculine)
su
his/her/its/their/your (formal)
fuerte
strong / loudly
que
that / than
igual
equal
tímido
shy
el carácter
the character
Questions & Answers about El hermano es igual de tímido que su hermana, pero tiene un carácter fuerte.
Why use igual de tímido que instead of tan tímido como?
Both mean as shy as and can usually be used interchangeably! Igual de ... que is just another way to express equality with adjectives and adverbs. You might hear it used to add a bit more emphasis to the equal part, but grammatically they do the exact same job here.
Why is it tímido and not tímida, since the sister is also mentioned?
Does carácter fuerte mean he is physically strong?
Why does the word carácter have a written accent mark?
In Spanish, words that end in -r normally have the spoken stress on the last syllable. Because the stress in carácter actually falls on the second-to-last syllable (ca-RÁC-ter), it needs a written accent mark to break the normal pronunciation rule.
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