Questions & Answers about El vestido rojo es muy barato.
Why is vestido masculine (el vestido) if it is clothing usually worn by women?
In Spanish, grammatical gender belongs to the word itself, not the person who uses or wears the item. Vestido ends in -o, which is typically a masculine ending, so it uses the masculine word for the, which is el.
Why is it vestido rojo instead of rojo vestido?
Prices can change, so why do we use es (from the verb ser) instead of está (from estar)?
Even though prices change, being cheap (barato) or expensive (caro) is treated as a core quality of the item rather than a temporary condition. For inherent descriptions like this, we use the verb ser (es).
Could I say mucho barato instead of muy barato?
No, you must use muy. Use muy (very) before adjectives like barato (cheap) to describe a quality. Mucho means a lot or much, and is used with nouns, for example mucho dinero (a lot of money).
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