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El festival fue desastroso y muy caótico.

El festival fue desastroso y muy caótico.
The festival was disastrous and very chaotic.
From Lesson 294:Escalating connectors (encima, es más)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El festival fue desastroso y muy caótico.

ser
to be
y
and
muy
very
el festival
the festival
desastroso
disastrous
caótico
chaotic

Questions & Answers about El festival fue desastroso y muy caótico.

Why is fue used here instead of estuvo?
When describing an event like a festival, party, or concert, Spanish uses the verb ser (conjugated here as fue) to say how it went or what it was like overall. We do not use estar to describe the qualities of an event.
Why use the preterite fue instead of the imperfect era?
We use the preterite fue because the speaker is summarizing a completed event from start to finish. If they used era, it would sound like they were setting a background scene for another action, such as 'The festival was chaotic when the storm started'.
How could I use a connector like encima in this sentence?
You can use encima to emphasize that the chaos added an escalating negative element to the disaster. You would simply combine it with y, like this: El festival fue desastroso y, encima, muy caótico (The festival was disastrous and, on top of that, very chaotic).
Why does caótico have an accent mark?
The word is broken into syllables as ca-ó-ti-co. The spoken stress falls on the third-to-last syllable (ó). In Spanish, any word with the stress on the third-to-last syllable always gets a written accent mark.

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