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El jardín del vecino es muy grande.

El jardín del vecino es muy grande.
The neighbor's garden is very big.
From Lesson 23:Origin and possession (de, del)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El jardín del vecino es muy grande.

Why does the Spanish sentence use del instead of de el?
In Spanish, when the preposition de (of) is followed directly by the masculine word for 'the', which is el, they always combine to form the contraction del. You will never see de el written as two separate words.
How do you say 'neighbor's' in Spanish? Is there an apostrophe 's'?
Spanish doesn't use an apostrophe 's' for possession. Instead, you have to switch the word order and use de (of). 'The neighbor's garden' literally becomes 'The garden of the neighbor' (El jardín del vecino).
Why do we use es instead of está to say the garden 'is' big?
We use es (from the verb ser) because being 'big' is a basic, permanent physical characteristic of the garden. We save está (from estar) for temporary states or locations, like saying where the garden is located.
Would grande change if we were talking about a feminine noun, like a house (casa)?
No, it stays exactly the same! Adjectives that end in -e, like grande, do not change between masculine and feminine. You would say el jardín grande (the big garden) and la casa grande (the big house).

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