Showing posts with label Adjectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adjectives. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2018

Some useful Spanish adjectives and their opposites

Here is a short list of some useful and common adjectives for beginner level in Spanish.

English Spanish
alive dead vivo muerto
beautiful ugly hermoso feo
big small grande pequeño
bitter sweet amargo dulce
cheap expensive barato caro
clean dirty limpio sucio
curly straight rizado lizo
difficult easy difícil fácil
good bad bueno malo
early late temprano tarde
fat thin gordo delgado
full empty lleno vacío
hot cold caliente frío
happy sad/unhappy feliz triste
hardworking lazy trabajoso perezoso
new old nuevo viejo
nice nasty majo bruto
intelligent stupid inteligente estúpido
interesting boring interesante aburrido
light heavy ligero pesado
polite rude/impolite cortés grosero
poor rich pobre rico
quiet noisy tranquilo ruidoso
right wrong correcto incorrecto
safe dangerous seguro peligroso
short long corto largo
soft hard blando duro
single married soltero casado
well ill/unwell bien malo
white black blanco negro

Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Spanish expression "tan como"

In comparisons of equality, the English formula as + adverb/ adjective + as is translated into Spanish by tan + adverb/ adjective + como.

Ella no habla tan claramente como él.
She doesn't speak as clearly as he.

Ana no es tan bella como María.
Anne is not as pretty as Mary.

Definite article and units of measurements

The definite article is used before units of weight or measure in Spanish where the indefinite article is required in English. Estas manza...