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Comemos las manzanas rojas.

Comemos las manzanas rojas.
We eat the red apples.
From Lesson 9:Regular '-er' verbs (-o, -es, -e...)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of Comemos las manzanas rojas.

rojo
red
comer
to eat; to have lunch
la manzana
the apple

Questions & Answers about Comemos las manzanas rojas.

How does the ending of comemos show who is eating?
Comemos comes from the regular verb comer (to eat). For regular verbs ending in -er, we take off the -er and add -emos to mean "we" do the action.
Where is the word for "we" in this sentence?
In Spanish, the ending of the verb usually tells you who is doing the action. Because comemos always means "we eat", we don't need to add the word nosotros (we) unless we want extra emphasis.
Why is the order manzanas rojas instead of "red apples"?
In English, we put the describing word (adjective) before the thing it describes. In Spanish, it's usually the other way around: the thing comes first (manzanas), followed by its description (rojas).
Why is it rojas instead of just rojo?
Describing words in Spanish have to match the gender and number of the noun they describe. Manzanas is feminine and plural (more than one), so the base word rojo (red) changes to match it, becoming rojas.

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