Breakdown of La tormenta será violentísima en esa atmósfera densa.
ser
to be
en
in / on / at
esa
that (feminine)
la tormenta
the storm
la atmósfera
atmosphere
denso
dense
violento
violent
Questions & Answers about La tormenta será violentísima en esa atmósfera densa.
How do I form the absolute superlative violentísima from the base adjective?
Why do we use será (from ser) instead of estará (from estar) to describe a storm? Aren't storms temporary?
While a storm is a temporary event, we are defining its inherent characteristics here. When you describe the core nature of an event or how it is expected to unfold, you use ser. Using estar describes a temporary state or a change in state, but 'extremely violent' defines exactly what kind of storm this is.
Since atmósfera starts with an 'a', shouldn't it use a masculine determiner like ese to avoid the double 'a' sound with esa?
No, the rule for switching to masculine determiners only applies to feminine nouns that begin with a stressed 'a' or 'ha' sound, like el agua or un águila. In atmósfera, the stress falls on the o (as shown by the accent mark), so it takes standard feminine words like esa and densa.
Is there a difference in meaning if I say densa atmósfera instead of atmósfera densa?
Placing densa after the noun is the standard way to state a literal, distinguishing physical fact about the atmosphere. Moving it before the noun (densa atmósfera) is grammatically correct but gives the sentence a more literary or poetic tone, emphasizing the density as an inherent or subjective quality.
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