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El puerto de la ciudad es muy grande.

El puerto de la ciudad es muy grande.
The city's port is very big.
From Lesson 26:Land and sea (el mar, el río, el norte)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of El puerto de la ciudad es muy grande.

ser
to be
grande
big
de
of
la ciudad
the city
muy
very
el puerto
the port

Questions & Answers about El puerto de la ciudad es muy grande.

Why does the Spanish sentence say el puerto de la ciudad instead of using an apostrophe "s" for "the city's"?
Spanish doesn't have an apostrophe "s" to show possession. Instead, you always use the word de (of). So, "the city's port" must be rearranged to "the port of the city" (el puerto de la ciudad).
I thought feminine words usually end in "a". Why does this sentence use la with ciudad?
While many feminine words do end in "a", words that end in -dad (like ciudad or verdad) are also feminine. Because of this rule, we use the feminine word for "the", which is la.
Why do we use es instead of está for the word "is"?
Spanish has two verbs for "to be". We use the verb ser (which becomes es here) for core descriptions and characteristics, like the size of a place. Since being big is a physical description of the port and not a temporary condition, we use es.
If we were describing a feminine noun instead of a masculine one, would grande change to granda?
No. Adjectives that end in "e" (like grande) do not change their ending for gender. It stays exactly the same whether you are describing a masculine noun like el puerto or a feminine noun like la ciudad.

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