Learn Spanish (Spain): Nosotros somos buenos amigos.

Nosotros somos buenos amigos.

We are good friends.

Breakdown of Nosotros somos buenos amigos.

ser

to be

nosotros

we / us (after a preposition)

Questions & Answers about Nosotros somos buenos amigos.

If a group of women were saying this, would they still use "Nosotros"?

No, a group of women would say Nosotras. You use Nosotros when the group is all men, or a mix of men and women.

Do I always have to say "nosotros" before "somos"?

No, you can simply say Somos buenos amigos. Because somos is the "we" form of the verb ser (to be), people already know you mean "we". You only add nosotros if you want to emphasize that we are good friends.

I thought describing words came after the thing they describe in Spanish. Why is it "buenos amigos" and not "amigos buenos"?

You are right that adjectives usually go after the noun! However, a few very common words, like bueno (good) and malo (bad), often go before the noun instead. Since it comes before a masculine plural word (amigos), it takes the matching form buenos.

How would the whole sentence change if it was a group of female friends?

The describing words and nouns would need to match the feminine plural form. The pronoun becomes nosotras, the adjective becomes buenas, and the noun becomes amigas. The verb somos stays exactly the same, making the sentence: Nosotras somos buenas amigas.