Breakdown of El pueblo tiene un río muy bonito.
bonito
pretty
un
a, an, some
el pueblo
the town, the village
muy
very
tener
to have
el río
the river
Questions & Answers about El pueblo tiene un río muy bonito.
I thought pueblo meant people. Why is it translated as village here?
Pueblo is a tricky word! It can refer to the people of a nation, but in everyday Spanish, it is the most common word for a village or small town.
Why is the verb tiene used here instead of a regular conjugation?
Tiene comes from the irregular verb tener (to have). Because el pueblo (the village) counts as a single thing or an it, we use the he, she, or it form, which is tiene.
Why does the Spanish sentence say un río muy bonito instead of un muy bonito río?
In English, description words (adjectives) go before the thing they describe. In Spanish, they usually go after. So the phrase is ordered as a river (un río) very pretty (muy bonito).
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