"The holiday was good"
Would it be "las vacaciones fue bueno"? In which case, why is las vacaiones a plural when I'm only talking apart one holiday. How do you differentiate between the holiday and the holidays (fue vs fueron perhaps?).
Also, imperfect or preterite for describing this? estar or ser? I'm assuming preterite, as it's a fixed length and ser as it happens in a fixed time.
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In the US, a holiday is a day on which one is exempt from work; specifically : a day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event
In the UK, it means vacation —often used in the phrase on holiday —often used in the plural.
In Spanish -- a holiday (like Independence Day) is expressed as día festivo, día de fiesta or día de asueto.
Holidays or vacation --- is always expressed as las vacaciones (You may hear la vacación or una vacación, but very seldom).
So, to answer you question, you can say "Las vacaciones fueron or estuvieron buenas", with a small nuance in meaning. Fueron means it was a great vacation. Period.
Estuvieron means that "compared to other vacations" this particular one was good.
The use of the imperfect depends on the action. Las vacaciones en Italia eran buenas en otoño, pero en invierno eran horribles (you're describing a habitual action in the past, whose ending matters little to the reader). I am not sure I could think of an example using estar in the imperfect to describe a vacation that would sound native to me.
Sorry for rambling. I hope this makes sense.
