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Las cerezas de la frutería son muy dulces.

Las cerezas de la frutería son muy dulces.
The cherries from the greengrocer's are very sweet.
From Lesson 93:At the market: cherries, mushrooms and sausages (la cereza, la seta, la salchicha)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of Las cerezas de la frutería son muy dulces.

ser
to be
muy
very
de
from
dulce
sweet
la frutería
the greengrocer's
la cereza
the cherry

Questions & Answers about Las cerezas de la frutería son muy dulces.

Why do we use son here instead of están when talking about how food tastes?
We use son (from ser) to state a general fact or characteristic. It means the cherries sold at this specific shop are generally a sweet variety. If you were eating a cherry right now and wanted to comment on how it tastes in the moment, you would use estar and say están muy dulces.
Why is the adjective dulces instead of dulcas to match the feminine noun cerezas?
Adjectives that end in -e in their singular form, like dulce (sweet), do not change to match gender. They are the exact same for masculine and feminine nouns. Because Las cerezas is plural, you simply add an -s to make the adjective plural too.
Is there a pattern to words like frutería?
Yes! In Spanish, the ending -ería is often added to a base word to name the shop that sells it. Here, fruta (fruit) becomes frutería (greengrocer or fruit shop). You will also see this in panadería (bakery, from pan) and carnicería (butcher, from carne).
Could I say mucho dulces instead of muy dulces?
No, because dulces is an adjective. You always use muy (very) before adjectives and adverbs. You only use forms of mucho (a lot / much) before nouns or after verbs.

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