Breakdown of La nave será de otro planeta misterioso.
ser
to be
de
from
otro
other / another
la nave
the ship
Questions & Answers about La nave será de otro planeta misterioso.
Why does the sentence use será if the translation says the ship 'is probably' rather than 'will be'?
In Spanish, the future tense is often used to express a guess, probability, or wonder about something happening right now. So while será is the future tense of ser, here it translates to 'is probably' or 'must be' because the speaker is guessing about the ship's origin in the present.
Could we use estará instead of será since we are talking about the ship in space?
No, because the preposition de indicates origin (where the ship comes from), not its current physical location. When talking about origin or where something was made, you always use the verb ser, even when you are just guessing about it using the future tense.
Why is there no word for 'a' or 'an' before otro to say 'another'?
The Spanish word otro inherently means 'another' or 'other' all by itself. Adding an indefinite article before it to say un otro is a very common direct-translation mistake for English speakers, but it is always incorrect in Spanish.
Why do the words otro and misterioso end in '-o' when they describe planeta, which ends in '-a'?
The word planeta is masculine, even though it ends in '-a' (it comes from Greek, which gave Spanish many masculine words ending in '-a' like el problema or el mapa). Because the noun is masculine, all adjectives that describe it must also be in their masculine forms.