Word
Buscamos diecinueve sillas pequeñas.
Meaning
We are looking for nineteen small chairs.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Buscamos diecinueve sillas pequeñas.
pequeño
small
la silla
the chair
buscar
to look for
diecinueve
nineteen
Questions & Answers about Buscamos diecinueve sillas pequeñas.
How is the word for 19 (diecinueve) formed? Why isn't it "diez y nueve"?
In Spanish, the numbers 16 through 19 are written as a single word. To combine diez (ten) and nueve (nine), the z changes to a c, and the connecting y (and) becomes an i, creating diecinueve.
Why is there no word for "for" after Buscamos?
Why does pequeñas end in -as?
Descriptive words (adjectives) have to match the noun they describe. Since sillas (chairs) is feminine and plural, the word for small must also be feminine and plural: pequeñas. By the way, the number diecinueve doesn't change its ending; numbers 11 through 20 stay exactly the same whether the noun is masculine or feminine.