Practice asking for the price using common demonstrative adjectives
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| Do you know how to use Spanish demonstrative adjectives? |
| Welcome to Three Step Spanish Practice by SpanishPod101.com! |
| In this lesson, you’ll practice asking for the price using common demonstrative adjectives. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. A woman is asking the shopkeeper about the price of a painting. |
| Disculpe, ¿Cuánto cuesta esa pintura? |
| "Excuse me, how much does that painting cost?" |
| ¿Qué pintura? ¿Esta? |
| "Which painting? This one?" |
| esa pintura |
| means "that painting." |
| esa |
| meaning "that" is used here because it's a demonstrative adjective referring to the feminine singular noun pintura, which means "painting." |
| There are other demonstrative adjectives in Spanish that also depend on the noun's gender, number, and location. |
| In this lesson, we will focus on este and esta, which mean "this," and ese and esa, which mean "that." |
| In Spanish, if the noun is masculine and singular, este means "this" and ese means "that." |
| If the noun is feminine and singular, then esta means "this" and esa means "that." |
| Here, ese and esa are used when the object is closer to the listener than the speaker. |
| When talking about plural nouns, the endings change. |
| For masculine plural nouns, estos means "these" and esos means "those." |
| For feminine plural nouns, estas means "these," and esas means "those." |
| The verb doesn't change based on gender, but it does change with number! |
| In the dialogue, we saw cuesta, which means "cost" for singular nouns. |
| But what happens when we talk about more than one item? |
| It becomes cuestan! |
| Let's practice this grammar point more in this lesson. |
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