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La comida del restaurante es muy mala.

La comida del restaurante es muy mala.
The restaurant's food is very bad.
From Lesson 68:Meals and Proteins·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about La comida del restaurante es muy mala.

Why does the sentence use del restaurante instead of an apostrophe 's' like in English?
Spanish does not use an apostrophe 's' to show possession. Instead of saying the restaurant's food, you must flip the word order and say the food of the restaurant (la comida de el restaurante).
Where does the word del come from?
del is a required combination of two words: de (of) and el (the). Whenever de is followed directly by el, they always mash together to form del. That is why it is del restaurante instead of de el restaurante.
Why use es instead of está here? Isn't how food tastes a temporary condition?
We use es (from the verb ser) because this sentence describes the restaurant's food in general as a permanent characteristic. If you were sitting at the table and wanted to say that the specific plate of food in front of you tastes bad right now, you would use está (from the verb estar).
Why is the word for bad spelled as mala instead of malo?
In Spanish, describing words (adjectives) must match the gender of the noun they describe. Since comida (food) is a feminine word, the basic adjective malo changes its ending to match, becoming mala.

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