Learn Spanish (Latin America): Este aceite me hace relucir la cara; deja la piel reluciente. - This oil makes my face gleam; it leaves the skin gleaming.

The suffix -nte creates an active participle, which is an adjective describing a noun that actually performs the action of the verb. For most -er and -ir verbs, you drop the infinitive ending and add -iente or -ente. Here, the verb relucir (to gleam) naturally becomes the adjective reluciente (gleaming).

Do adjectives ending in -nte like reluciente change for gender?

No. Adjectives that end in -e, including all active participles ending in -ante, -ente, and -iente, are gender-neutral. Reluciente matches the feminine noun la piel here, but it would look exactly the same with a masculine noun like el pelo. You only need to add an -s if the noun is plural.

Why does the first part say me hace relucir la cara instead of hace relucir mi cara?

When talking about body parts, Spanish strongly prefers to use the definite article (la cara) rather than a possessive adjective (mi cara). To show whose face it is, we use the indirect object pronoun me. A literal translation would be that the oil makes the face gleam to me.

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