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DESCRIPCIONES
Warm up (1minute)
Descriptions
How do you say “hot”
and “cold”? (pp.60–1) Adjectives are words used to describe things. In
What is the Spanish for Spanish you generally put the adjective after the thing
“room,” “bed,” and it describes in the same gender and number: una
“pillow”? (pp.60–1) bebida fría (a cold drink (a cold drink ( , feminine singular); un café
frío (a cold coffee (a cold coffee ( , masculine singular); dos bebidas
frías (two cold drinks (two cold drinks ( , feminine plural).

Words to remember (7 minutes)

Adjectives change depending on whether the thing described
is masculine el or feminine la. Generally, a final o changes
to a in the feminine, but if the adjective ends with e such
as grande it doesn’t change for the feminine. For the plural,
just add an s.
las montañas altas
duro/dura hard
dooroh/dooroh/dooroh/ rah las montanyas yas tanyas tan altas
high mountains
blando/blanda soft
blandoh/blandah
caliente hot
ka ka
kalyainyainlyainl tay la tienda pequeña
lah tyaintyaindah pekenyah
frío/fría cold small shop
f freereeoh/freefreeoh/freeoh/ ah
grande big
g
granranday
pequeño/pequeña small
pekenyoh/pekenyah
bonito/bonita beautiful
boneetoh/boneetah
feo/fea ugly
fe -ah
fehh-oh/fehfeh-oh/feh-oh/
ruidoso/ruidosa noisy
rrweedosoh/rrweedosah
tranquilo/tranquila quiet
trankeeloh/trankeelah
bueno/buena good
bwenoh/bwenah
malo/mala bad
maloh/maloh/maloh/ lah el coche viejo
el koche bee-ayayhoh
lento/lenta slow old car
lentoh/lentah
El pueblo es muy bonito.
rápido/rápida fast el pwepwebloh es mwee boneetoh
rrapeedoh/peedoh/peedoh/rrapeedoh/rrapeedoh/ p peedaheedah The village is very beautiful.
la calle tranquila
lah kayay tranyay trankayay tranka keelah
quiet road