This document discusses descriptive adjectives and possessive adjectives in Spanish. It provides the following key points: - Descriptive adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. They come after the noun and change form based on rules like dropping the -o for feminine nouns. - Possessive adjectives express ownership or possession and always precede the noun. They agree in gender and number with the possessed noun, not the possessor. - To show possession, Spanish uses "de + noun" instead of an apostrophe. For example, "El perro de Jorge" means "Jorge's dog." Su/sus can replace a phrase with "de +

1. Descriptive Adjectives
• Used with the verb ser
• Agree in gender and number of the noun
• Come after the noun they describe
• Adjectives that en in –o change to a for
feminine nouns
• Add an –s for plural nouns

2. ex
• El hombre es bueno.
• La mujer es buena.
• Los hombres son buenos.
• Las mujeres son buenas.

3. • Adjectives that end in –e have the same forms
for masculine and feminine nouns
• Add –s for plural nouns
• Ex.
El hombre es inteligente.
La mujer es inteligente.
Las mujeres son inteligentes.

4. position
• Adjectives describing quantity go before a
noun  muchos libros
• Bueno and malo can go before a noun
• When these adjectives appear before a
masculine singular noun, they are shortened
• When grande appears before singular nouns,
the meaning changes from big to great

5. Adjetivos Posesivos

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Possessive adjectives, like descriptive
adjectives, are used to qualify people, places, or things.
Possessive adjectives express the quality of ownership or
possession.

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• Possessive adjectives are always placed before
the nouns they modify.

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• Because su and sus have multiple meanings
(your, his, her, their, its), you can avoid
confusion by using this construction instead:
[article] + [noun] + de + [subject pronoun].

9. Possessive Adjectives
• Some examples:
mi hermano mis hermanos
tu abuela tus abuelas
su hijo sus hijos
nuestro tío nuestros tíos
nuestra tía nuestras tías

10. In English, the possessive adjectives his, her, and
their tell whether something belongs to a male, a
female, or more than one person.
•
In Spanish, the possessive adjective su has
many possible meanings (his, her, its, your,
their). Context usually makes the meaning
clear.

11. Possessive Adjectives
• The possessive adjective must be singular if
the noun is singular and plural if the noun is
plural.
While possessive adjectives refer to the
owner, their form agrees in gender and
number with the noun that comes after
them.

13. Posessive Adjectives
•Mi prima es alta.
•Mis primas son altas.

14. Posessive Adjectives
•¿Son rubios los hermanos
de Rafael?
•No, sus hermanos son
pelirrojos.

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16. Showing Possession
• In Spanish there are NO
apostrophes.
• You cannot say, for example,
Jorge’s dog,
(using an apostrophe)

17. Showing Posession
• You must say,
• “The dog of Jorge,” only in
Spanish. Like this:
• El perro de Jorge.

18. De + noun
• This concept of showing
possession is using “de +
noun.”
For example:

19. De + Noun
• Tengo el cuaderno de Felipe.
La hermana de María es
amable.

20. Su and sus can take the place of
a phrase with de + person.
• ¿De dónde es la madre de
Juan?
• Su madre es de Puebla.

21. Verbos ER
o
es
e
emos
éis
en
o
es
e
imos
ís
en
Verbos IR

22. Tener y Venir
• The endings are the same as those of
regular -er and -ir verbs, except for the yo
forms, which are irregular: tengo, vengo.

23. Tener expressions
• In certain idiomatic or set expressions in
Spanish, you use the construction tener +
[noun] to express to be + [adjective].

25. • To express an obligation, use tener que
(to have to) + [infinitive].
• To ask people if they feel like doing
something, use tener ganas de (to feel
like) + [infinitive].