Lesson Seven: Adjetivos (adjectives)

ADJECTIVES

Contento = Happy (Glad) Triste = sad

Fuerte = Strong Debil = weak

Alto = high/tall (people and things) Bajo = short/low

Grande = Big Peque ño = small/little

R ápido = fast Lento = slow

Interesante = Interesting Aburrido = boring

Guapo = handsome/pretty Feo = ugly (things/people)

Bonito = pretty/beautiful (for things)

Agradable = nice/agreeable Desagradable = Disgusting

Simp ático = nice/funny Antip ático = Antipathic/rude

Gordo = Fat Delgado = thin/slim

Rico = rich Pobre = poor

Enfermo = ill/sick Sano = healthy

Caro = expensive Barato = cheap

Ligero = light Pesado = heavy

Fácil = easy Difícil = difficult

Sencillo = easy Complicado = Complicated

Lleno = full Vacío = empty

Largo = long Corto = short

Listo = clever Tonto = fool/silly

Inteligente = intelligent

Claro = clear/light Oscuro = dark

Nuevo = New Viejo = old

We have seen already how the adjectives go after the name ( casa roja = right / roja casa =

wrong). This will always be like this except with this 2 exceptions;

-In literary works, songs and poetry they use the adjectives first as an accepted resource, but it

will be strange if we use in conversation lines taken from Don Quijote.

-With the adjectives Bueno = Good Malo = bad Nuevo= new (this can go before or after)

the correct way is to put them first if they don't go with any adverb.

Es un buen libro = It's a good book Es una mala película = It's a bad movie

Es un libro muy bueno= It's a very good book

When we add muy (very) is better to put the adjective "bueno" in the end because the phrase

sounds more natural.

Notice how the masculine loses the O. Buen libro, Mal libro.

PRACTICAL PART

Here are some phrases, some of these words we have seen, some of them are new. Write the

new ones in your notebook and notice how your vocabulary grows.

Hola, buenos días. Me llamo Jorge, tengo veintiocho años . Me gustan las películas de acción.

También me gusta conocer gente de paises diferentes. Puedo hablar inglés y español .

Tengo que hablar con tu amigo Antonio, es muy importante. Mi coche está en su casa y no quiero

ir en bus al trabajo.

El lunes hay una fiesta en casa de Mar ía. Me gusta María, es muy divertida, tambien es muy

guapa. Pero hay un problema, ella no me conoce. No puedo hablar con ella... no es fácil hablar con

una chica así.

¡ Hola Sergio ! Estoy en Washington. Me gusta la casa blanca. En el restaurante hay pollo con

tomate.

Tengo veintiocho a ños = I am 28 years old (In spanish you "have" these 28 years)

De = of tambi én = also/too gente = people (in spanish people is singular) la gente es

Agradable (instead of la gente son ) Que = what/that (we will study this word later) Muy =

very IR = the verb TO GO in infinitive AL = contraction of A EL (to the) Trabajo = work

(verb and action) EN= IN EL LUNES= ON MONDAY HAY= there is/there are

Me conoce= knows me (we will see this later)

Don't worry if you didn't understand most of the text, right now we are only building our

vocabulary.

When we have A + EL or DE + EL we contract into AL and DEL. Remember it.