Spanish Basics 2 – Master Adjectives & Speak More Naturally

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So if there's anything that I can do for you, please send me a message. I'll be glad to contact you, to connect with you. You have a great rest of your day. We're going to talk about how to use adjectives in Spanish, where to place them, and what do we do with them. So I'm going to, before we begin, I'm going to jump up to the place where we've been before. This is very important. Everything agrees in these four measures. We got number, gender. That means singular and plural. Nouns and adjectives. So adjectives, that's what we're talking about today. We've talked about how nouns are masculine and feminine, but also your adjectives are going to be learned. Your adjectives are going to have to agree, and this is going to make sense. Everything has to agree in these four. Well, today we're tackling number and gender, specifically with nouns and adjectives. So now, let's jump back down to where we were. How to use adjectives in Spanish. Placement of adjectives. Adjectives come after the noun and agree in number, and gender. Okay. Interesting. That's an interesting idea. Una idea interesante. Okay. Well, in English we say an interesting idea, but as you can tell, it's out of English order, and in the correct order in Spanish. Now, a question for you. How do I make the word idea, idea, plural? Well, it ends with it with a vowel. We're just going to add an s. Una ideas interesante. Something's off with that, because everything, everything has to agree in number and gender. So this right here is going to turn into unas ideas interesantes. Notice in English an interesting idea, or some interesting ideas changes slightly, but in here every single word has to become plural. So let's take a look at a couple of examples, and we're going to go through these. I'm going to show you the different, different exceptions as they stand out, because I think that by application you're going to real, you're going to really start to solidify them in your mind. So, a famous actor. Well, let's change that to be plural in English. Some famous actors. Remember that indirect, or not indirect, indefinite article, a changes to some. So over here, un changes to unos, as we saw previously. Well, the word actor, actor, actores. Notice it ends with a consonant, so we're just adding es. Famoso. Un actor famoso. We're going to make it plural. Unos actores, actores famosos. Unos actores famosos. Now, it's very important here to realize that they all agree. Famoso, which is one of the words that you learned in your vocabulary. Famoso, well, you're going to learn it in its base form. The base form of learning an adjective is whenever you're going to learn it in the singular masculine edition. But notice, now let's just say that these were, um, well, we'll get there. The interesting character. The interesting characters. Well, notice in English we simply just add an es, and it changes the entire phrase to be plural. Well, el personaje interesante. I'm going to include at the end of this lesson a guide to Spanish pronunciations, so be sure to watch that. It's going to be a YouTube video. El personaje interesante. Okay, well, how do I change el masculine definite article? We're going to change it to los. El, la, los, las. El personaje interesante. Los personajes interesantes. Okay, well, but hold on. It ends with an e. How do I change something that ends with an e to be plural? Well, we're just simply going to add an s to it. It doesn't matter. Because if it ended with an o or an a, or, I mean, if it's a standard adjective, it's going to end with an o. So then we would change that to be flexible to an a, or, and then, of course, add an s to make it plural. So, los personajes interesantes. Here we go to the next one. A small volcano. Okay, what if there were some small volcanoes? Is it specific? No, it's very general. It is an indefinite article. So, let's do that in Spanish. Un, because it's masculine. Volcán pequeño. Okay, well, it's pequeño because it's masculine. Let me actually make sure. There we go. Much better. Okay, un volcán pequeño. It ends with an o because volcán, even though it doesn't end with an o here, it's not volcano. Un volcán pequeño. Okay, how do I make un plural? Well, un, una, unos, unas, uno. Unos is plural of un. Volcanes pequeños. And notice they're all pluralized right here. That o is continuing to agree that all of this is masculine and all of this is plural. The gray shoe. The gray shoe. Okay, now this one I put here intentionally to show you what to do to make some adjectives plural. Because notice, el zapato. Well, we have that. El zapato. It's not a z. It's a s. El zapato. Doesn't make rz sound, but the z sound in Spanish is a s. El zapato. Well, we don't have any problems with this. It's going to be pretty standard. It's going to change the los zapatos. Los zapatos. I think I'm trying to sneak in a z on that, but the correct way is zapato. Grease. Well, that ends with an s. What do I do? Well, we're going to revert a little bit to an English rule here and we're just going to add an es. Well, it's not an English rule. It ends with a consonant. So, if it ends with a consonant, we add an es. So, los zapatos grises. Los zapatos grises. All masculine. They're all plural. We're going to do this one and then I'm grateful that we're going to get to a young man. Okay, well, let's make it plural. Some young men. Indefinite article. Un hombre joven. Okay, notice we're not pronouncing the h. Un hombre joven. J makes a h sound. Un hombre joven. Ends with a consonant. What do you think we're going to do? I hope you cheated and you looked over here and you saw that we're just going to simply add an es. Unos hombres jovenes. Some young men. Some young men. We are, whoop, we're changing the location of where the adjective and the noun go. The delicious kitchen. Don't make fun of my words. The delicious kitchens. The delicious kitchens. La cocina deliciosa. Okay, pretty straightforward. But notice right here, you probably learned the word. Actually, I have it right here. Let me see if I can find it. Delicious. You learned the word delicioso. Okay, well, that is in its base form. So, whenever we change it over to be feminine. La cocina deliciosa. Las cocinas deliciosas. Okay, we are just simply changing that o that you learned to agree. Well, la cocina is feminine, so that has to agree in its feminine form. And if we make it plural, las cocinas deliciosas. Good job. I know you're catching on. The big hospital. Some big hospital. Okay. So, over here, we are going to look at the big hospital. Some big hospitals. Okay. Un hospital. Notice hospital. We're getting rid of that h. We're not pronouncing the h. Un hospital grande. There we go. Right there. Grande. Well, grande, as you learned, it doesn't end with an o or an a. So, therefore, it's just going to stay neutral. Un hospital grande. Now, if it's going to be plural. Unos hospitales. Hospitales. It ends with a consonant, so we're just adding an es. Hospitales grandes. Unos hospitales grandes. Make sure not to sneak that h in there. Hospital. Grandes. We're just simply adding an s there. The modern piano. The modern pianos. El piano moderno. Los pianos modernos. We're going to start flying through some of these because I believe that you're catching on to it. A colorful suitcase. Some colorful suitcases. Una maleta colorido. Colorida. See, I just said color with an o, but I have to make it agree. Una maleta colorida. Unas maletas coloridas. It has to have that s. Once again, we are making all of these plural over here. The artistic song. La canción artística. La canción artística. Notice there's that accent right there. La artística. La canción. Notice I put that on. La canción artística. La canción artística. Okay, well, this one ends with a consonant, so we're going to add es rather than just s like we did up here. Las canciones artísticas. Now, notice that o loses it because it naturally now has the accent. Over here, it ends with a la canción. Las canciones. I don't need that accent there because it naturally comes that way. Artísticas. Artísticas ends with an as because it is now plural. The sharp pencil. Some sharp pencils. Un lapiz afilado. Unos lapices afilados. Notice that z because it ends with a z. We're going to change it to a c. A c and add es. Afilados. Afilados. The bright friendship. The bright friendships. La amistad brillantes. We're going to add an es right here because it ends with a consonant. Las amistades brillantes. A famous year. Some famous years. Un año famoso. Unos años famosos. La plaza elegante. Las plazas elegantes. Una foto joven. Okay, so now note, we are going into the exceptions. Photo ends with o, but the real word, as we said in the first one, is fotografía. Una fotografía. Una foto joven. Unas fotos jóvenes. Okay, we're adding es because it ends with an n. Consonant adds an es. El día inteligente. Los días inteligentes. Una moto gris. Unas motos grises. Once again, ends with an s and so we're adding es on there. La mano hermosa. Las manos hermosas. And notice I'm not saying hermosas. I'm saying hermosas. Hermosas. Hermosas. Hermosas. Getting rid of that h sound. La película icónica. Las películas icónicas. Las películas icónicas. I hope this has been helpful for you. And yeah, wonderful. Good job. That is how we're going to be using adjectives in Spanish. What we're going to be studying next is going to be the adjective exceptions. There's just a few of them and it actually makes a lot more sense. So, we'll see you in the next one. Hello, hello and welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about the adjective exceptions. Thanks for continuing on with class. The things that are going to be important here is whenever adjectives change form before the noun. In Spanish most adjectives come after the noun, but there are nine special adjectives that can come before the noun and they can change form depending on gender and number of word plates. Okay, so I just said way too many things. Don't focus in. We're going to apply it in just a second. This session explains these adjectives, their transformations, and their rules. Okay, the first one, the first topic that we're going to talk about are these going to be these right here. The adjectives that drop the final o before singular and masculine nouns. These drop the final o when using before singular masculine nouns. This is all that we're talking about right here. So, there's two things that we're going to be paying attention to right here. The first that we're going to be paying attention to is that the singular masculine loses the o. Second thing we're paying attention to is normally we would say the el actor bueno. Nope, we're swapping it So, we're going to keep it back to the English regular scenario. So, good, bad, any, or some, which we'll talk about, none, first, and third. Excuse me. So, let's talk about it. El buen actor is the good actor. Okay, now notice it's going to stay, it's going to stay reversed because English it's the word reverse it to be normal Spanish and then unreverse it for these exceptions. So, back to English way. La buena pelicula, the good movie. So, notice all of these are staying the same. This one is losing the o. And all of them are staying in their original location as they Okay. Mal, malo. Malo is bad. Un mal dia. Okay. Well, you got two things. First of all, dia is an exception. Mal is in front of dia. Un mal dia. Una mala cancion. It's bad song. Okay. We're changing these over here to plural. We have to agree over here. But notice mala, malos, malas, and then this one's just getting rid of the o. Okay, let's talk about the word alguno, alguno. And ironically, you probably won't ever hear the word alguno. It just is the in its base form, alguno, because we're going to put it right over here to algún lapiz. It's whatever pen. It's some pen. It's any pen. It's whatever pen. This word alguno is, it's a lot like the word some, but it's different from unos y unas. Because unos y unas, ironically, it's not specific and it's general, but algún is a little bit more general. It's going to be like whatever, like whatever pencil, or we see it a lot right here with this type of question, alguna pregunta. Does anybody have algunas preguntas? Does anybody have any questions, whatever questions, anything that y'all can come up with? Algunas preguntas, alguna pregunta, algunos lapices. Yeah, it is what it is. Algunas preguntas. Ningún, ninguno, ningun hospital. There's no hospital. Ninguna foto. There's no, no photo. And the thing is, this is also, you can go back up here. Does anybody have algunas preguntas? Ninguna, ninguna pregunta, ninguna pregunta, ninguna, ninguna. So, you would say ninguna. If you're talking about questions, you're going to assume that someone's going to say ningunas. Ninguna pregunta. Because ningunas preguntas, like the thing I was about to say. Okay, note over here there are x's because you can't have plural of nothing. Ningunas preguntas doesn't exist because there's no plural of things that doesn't exist. Ninguna pregunta would be the way that we would go there. Okay, first, el primer año, the first year. Notice we're not, we're getting rid of the o. There's no o right there. Año. La primera plaza. La primera plaza. Once again, we're following the same rules. Los primeros años. Las primeras plazas. Tercero. El tercer zapato. El tercer zapato. We're getting rid of the o. Tercera mano. Los terceros zapatos. The third shoes. So, in English, remember third feels like it's singular, but it's agreeing with shoes. Shoes is plural. The whole thing's plural. The third shoes. Los terceros zapatos. What occasion would that be used? I have no idea. This is an example. Just to illustrate, this would be correct grammar, but a weird situation. Las terceras manos. The third hands. The third hands. Okay. So, special cases. This is, we're going to continue on to the next ranking file of the scenario. Okay. These adjectives follow their own unique transformative rules. So, grande to gran. If you're changing the word from grande to gran, it's going to change meanings. Grande means big whenever it's placed after the noun. Gran means great when placed before the noun. So, but also, we put this here. You'll see what we mean. Before we get there, we're going to go down here to the examples. Grande could be big or great. If I was to say un hombre grande, I'm saying a big man. That means a big man. But if I come over here and I just write un gran hombre, that's a great man. Un gran ciudad. Notice we're not putting grande ciudad. We're just saying una gran ciudad. Unos grandes hombres. Some great men. Now, notice this right here. Unos grandes hombres. Some great men. So, up here, if you put grande even before the noun, it can be grande. It can go before the noun. Masculine. Feminine. If it's plural, it has to be grandes. It goes before the noun. It means great. If it goes after, it means big. So, I can say unas ciudades grandes right here. And it would be some great, some big cities. A hundred. Ciento can go to cien before nouns. If it goes, if you're talking about numbers, it has to be ciento. But if you're talking about just, if you're describing a noun or counting a noun like ds down here, it's a hundred days. You can say cien ds. Cien motos. A hundred motocarts. A hundred days. A it's only cien because the theory is that a hundred, it's always plural because it's always a hundred. Cien ds. Cien motos. Cien ds. Cien motos. It is what it is. Okay. Now, we're going to start here with santo. It's going to change a lot of times the word san. If it's going to be masculine, there's a few examples. And it's mainly, there's a few exceptions. And those exceptions, sorry, are going to make a lot of sense in just a moment. So, santo changes the san before masculine names, except for whenever those that start with to or do. Because imagine this. If you were just going to say san tomas, it's going to sound like you're saying santo mas. So, we're going to keep it to say santo tomas. And down here, there's another one. It's santo domingo. Because the t and the d sound really similar. It would sound like you were saying san domingo. San domingo, rather than santo domingo. And that's going to be Holy Sunday. Right here, you're going to see a lot of men's names change to san, like San Jose, San Francisco, women are going to be santa if it's going to be St. Teresa or St. Clara, Santa Clara. Also, we have cities like San Antonio, San Diego, we have a city called Santa Fe. Those are all agreements of the word holy that's being used. So, there's all right. And in this part, we're going to keep on going down to review, where you're going to see you're going to have this and I would recommend going ahead and filling it out, filling it out. A small volcano, some small volcanoes, go ahead and write in. Okay, if our you what you can even do right here is if you get stuck on something, write it one word at a time. The modern piano, el piano moderno. Okay, so now I have all my vocabulary done. So, now what am I going to do? I'm going to change it over to be grammar. So, at least I'm organizing my brain correctly. And so, before it turns into a natural flow, which I hope and I believe it will by the time you finish this list, is you're kicking in the different parts of your brain. So, over here, the modern piano. Well, you know, it's at least going to be a base in this. So, el moderno piano. Okay. Now, the modern pianos. Now, you know, it's going to be plural. 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