Learn Spanish (Spain): El aeropuerto está muy lejos.

El aeropuerto está muy lejos.

The airport is very far.

Breakdown of El aeropuerto está muy lejos.

muy

very

estar

to be (location/state)

Questions & Answers about El aeropuerto está muy lejos.

Why do we use está instead of es in this sentence?

In Spanish, there are two verbs for "to be": ser and estar. We use estar to talk about where things are located. Even though the airport's location is permanent, you always use estar for physical locations.

Why does está have an accent mark on the last letter?

The accent mark tells you to put the spoken emphasis on the last syllable: es-TA. It also helps you tell the verb está (is) apart from the word esta (this), which has no accent mark and is pronounced ES-ta.

I sometimes mix up muy and mucho. Why is it muy here?

Muy means "very" and is used right before adjectives and adverbs (like lejos). Mucho means "a lot" or "much" and is used with nouns (like "mucho dinero") or after verbs. Since you are saying "very far," muy is the correct choice.

If I were talking about a feminine noun or multiple airports, would lejos change its ending?

No, lejos (far) will not change. It is an adverb telling us where something is, rather than an adjective describing the object itself. It always stays exactly the same, no matter the gender or number of the things you are talking about.