Breakdown of ¡Qué chaqueta de cuero más cara!
de
of
qué
what
caro
expensive
la chaqueta
the jacket
más
more; else (anything else, nobody else)
el cuero
the leather (hide)
Questions & Answers about ¡Qué chaqueta de cuero más cara!
Why is más used here instead of just putting the adjective at the end?
Why isn't there an equivalent for 'an' in the Spanish sentence?
When making exclamations with qué, Spanish never uses the indefinite articles un or una. Even though English requires 'What an expensive jacket', Spanish goes straight from qué to the noun: ¡Qué chaqueta!.
Is it possible to put the adjective before the noun, like ¡Qué más cara chaqueta de cuero!?
No, that word order is incorrect in Spanish. The formula for these exclamations is strict: Qué must be immediately followed by the noun phrase (chaqueta de cuero), and the emphatic adjective phrase (más cara) must come at the end.
Why use de cuero instead of a specific adjective for 'leather'?
Spanish does not place nouns directly in front of other nouns to act as adjectives like English does. To say a jacket is made of leather, you must use the preposition de plus the material noun, translating literally to 'jacket of leather'.
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