Breakdown of Mi compañero de trabajo es un desastre.
ser
to be
de
of
un
a, an, some
mi
my
el trabajo
the work
el compañero
the colleague / the classmate
el desastre
the disaster
Questions & Answers about Mi compañero de trabajo es un desastre.
Since the current lesson is about exclamations, how would I express "What a disaster!" about my coworker?
You would say ¡Qué desastre! to complain about them. Notice that in Spanish, you drop the word for "a" (un) after qué in these exclamations. It is always ¡Qué desastre!, never ¡Qué un desastre!.
Why do we say compañero de trabajo instead of trabajo compañero?
If my coworker is female, does desastre change to desastra?
Why do we use es instead of está here? Isn't being a disaster a temporary behavior?
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