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Estas sardinas están fresquísimas.

Estas sardinas están fresquísimas.
These sardines are really fresh.
From Lesson 201:Fish, meat and the market (la merluza, el cordero)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Estas sardinas están fresquísimas.

Why do we use están instead of son for fresh sardines?
We use están because freshness is treated as a temporary state or physical condition of the food at this moment. If you used son, it would sound like being fresh is a permanent, defining characteristic of these specific fish.
Where does the spelling of fresquísimas come from?
The base adjective is fresca (fresh). To say something is extremely fresh, Spanish speakers often add the ending -ísima. To keep the hard c sound of fresca when adding the i, the spelling changes from c to qu, resulting in fresquísima.
Why does fresquísimas end in -as?
Even when you add the -ísimo ending to intensify an adjective, the word still has to match the noun it describes. Because sardinas is feminine and plural, the adjective becomes fresquísimas.
Shouldn't the word estas have an accent mark?
No, estas does not need an accent here because it is a demonstrative adjective directly attached to the noun sardinas. You might be thinking of the verb estás (you are) which always has an accent, or the pronoun éstas (these ones) which used to require an accent in older spelling rules.

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