Breakdown of Vas a cocinar un pollo muy bueno.
Questions & Answers about Vas a cocinar un pollo muy bueno.
Where is the word "you" in this sentence?
In Spanish, you often don't need to say the subject pronoun (like tú for "you") because the verb already tells us who is doing the action. Vas specifically means "you are going", so adding tú before it isn't necessary unless you want to emphasize it. Why is there an a between vas and cocinar?
To say you are "going to do" something in Spanish, you use a specific formula: the verb ir (to go) + a + an action verb in its basic form (the infinitive). Here, vas means "you are going", cocinar means "to cook", and the a is the required glue that holds this future-tense phrase together. Why is the order un pollo muy bueno instead of un muy bueno pollo?
In English, descriptive words (adjectives) usually come before the noun. In Spanish, they almost always come after the noun they describe. So, instead of saying "a very good chicken", you construct it in the order of "a chicken very good" (un pollo muy bueno). I learned that bien means "good" or "well". Why do we use bueno here?
Bueno describes a thing or a person (a noun), like the chicken (pollo). Bien describes how an action is done (an adverb). Since we are describing the chicken itself as being a high-quality chicken, rather than saying you do the action of cooking well, we use bueno. Learn Vas a cocinar un pollo muy bueno and more in Spanish
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