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Adjectives: rojo, roja, rojos and rojas

You use adjectives to describe objects or people, la chaqueta grande the large jacket.

 

Spanish adjectives have different endings depending on what they're describing. With masculine nouns, adjectives end with -o, while for feminine nouns they end with -a.

 

El sombrero rojo The red hat
La camiseta roja The red top/tee-shirt

 

Others like grande big and azul blue stay the same:

 

El sombrero grande The big hat
La falda azul The blue skirt

 

When describing more than one thing, you add either an -s, when the adjective ends in a vowel, or -es, when it ends in a consonant.

 

Los zapatos rojos The red shoes
Las faldas rojas The red skirts
Los pantalones grandes The big trousers
Las chaquetas azules The blue jackets


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