Questions & Answers about El coche viejo es muy feo.
Why is the word for "old" (viejo) placed after "car" (coche)?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives usually go after the noun they describe. So instead of saying "the old car" like in English, you say "the car old" (el coche viejo).
The word coche ends in an "e". How do we know it's masculine?
Words ending in "e" can be either masculine or feminine in Spanish, so you have to memorize the gender when you learn the word. Because coche is masculine, it takes the masculine word for "the" (el) and forces the adjectives describing it to end in the masculine "-o" (viejo and feo).
Why does this sentence use es instead of está for "is"?
Why do we use muy instead of mucho here?
Muy means "very" and is used right before adjectives (like feo) to describe them. Mucho means "a lot" or "much" and is used with nouns, for example if you wanted to say "a lot of cars" (muchos coches).
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