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El concierto de anoche fue muy guay.

El concierto de anoche fue muy guay.
Last night's concert was really cool.
From Lesson 342:Colloquial Spain (guay, el chaval)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El concierto de anoche fue muy guay.

Why do we use de in el concierto de anoche? Can't I just say el concierto anoche?
In English, you can say "last night's concert," but Spanish doesn't use an apostrophe-S. You also can't usually stick a time word directly onto a noun to describe it. Instead, you have to link them with de, literally saying "the concert of last night."
Why use fue (from ser) instead of estuvo (from estar) to talk about how the concert was?
When you are evaluating an event or saying how it turned out overall, you use ser. We use fue to sum up the event's defining characteristic—in this case, that it was cool. As a general rule, events always use ser to say where they take place or how they went.
I haven't seen the word guay much. Is it common?
It is extremely common, but specifically in Spain! It is a casual, everyday word meaning "cool," "great," or "awesome." If you are speaking with people from Latin America, you will usually hear words like genial, chévere, or chido instead.
If the noun was plural, would guay change?
Yes! While guay doesn't change for masculine or feminine nouns, it does change for singular and plural. If you went to two concerts, you would say they were muy guays, adding an -s to match the plural subject.

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