Word
Mi familia es mucho más cálida que mis colegas.
Meaning
My family is much warmer than my colleagues.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Mi familia es mucho más cálida que mis colegas.
ser
to be
la familia
the family
mucho
many / a lot
mi
my
Questions & Answers about Mi familia es mucho más cálida que mis colegas.
How can I change this sentence to use resultar, as taught in this lesson?
You can replace es with me resulta, making the sentence: Mi familia me resulta mucho más cálida que mis colegas. While es states an objective fact (your family is warmer), me resulta acts as a subjective pseudo-copulative verb. It frames the warmth as your personal evaluation, meaning your family "strikes you as" or "feels to you" much warmer.
Why is cálida singular when I am comparing my family to my colegas (plural)?
The adjective cálida describes the subject of the sentence, familia. Even though a family is made up of multiple people and you are comparing them to your plural colleagues, the word familia is grammatically a singular, feminine collective noun. The adjective must stay singular and feminine to match it.
Why doesn't mucho change to mucha to match the feminine noun familia and adjective cálida?