Gender agreement with "un poco gordo"

Question

Which is correct:

Ella es un poco gordo. Ella es una poca gorda. Ella es poca gorda.

My gut tells me to go with the first sentence but I have a nagging doubt so I thought I'd throw this one to the community.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Ella es un poco gordo.

Now in this case, ella is the subject..... es is the verb............... un poco gordo is the phrase moifying the subject...... since the subject is female the word gordo has to agree with the gender of the subject. Male........gordo...el es gordo.......

female.....gorda.....ella es gorda.........

now the part of the modifying phrase," un poco "does not need to be change. Why? I don't know,but it might be that,"un poco " denotes quantity.

So then the correct phrase is "Ella es un poco gorda." ? - lachelvi, Dec 20, 2009

si - 00769608, Dec 20, 2009

si, 'cause the subject's gender has to agree with its modifier.Quien es gordo? el es gordo. quien es gorda? ella es gorda. - 00769608, Dec 20, 2009

"gorda" is an adjective and needs to agree with the noun that it modifies. "poco" is an adverb (modifying "gorda" and adverbs are invariant. - samdie, Dec 20, 2009