Questions & Answers about La gasolina es muy cara.
Why do we use muy here instead of mucho or mucha?
Why is it La gasolina and not just Gasolina like in English?
In Spanish, when you talk about a general substance or category in a broad way (like gasoline, water, or time) as the main subject of a sentence, you almost always need to include the definite article (el, la, los, or las).
Why does the word for expensive end in an "a" (cara)?
Adjectives in Spanish must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because gasolina is a feminine word, the basic masculine adjective caro changes to its feminine form, cara.
Gasoline prices change all the time, so why do we use es instead of está?
Even though the exact price goes up and down, describing an item as generally "expensive" or "cheap" is treated as a core characteristic of that thing. For essential characteristics and descriptions, Spanish uses the verb ser, which is why we use es here.
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