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In Spanish good morning is pronounced as buenos dias while good night as buenas noches .the meaning of buenos or buenas is same i.e good then why it differs in spelling???
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updated Apr 22, 2015
edited by txustaboy
posted by SaLoNi456
Please use proper capitalization in your sentences. - rac1, Apr 20, 2015
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Soy_Wink is totally correct. In Spanish, the adjetives must match with their relatives noums in gender and number. So:
Buena noche - fem-sing & fem-sing (this sentence is not really common but it is only an example)
Buenas noches - fem-pl & fem-pl
Buen día - male-sing & male-sing
Buenos dias - male-pl & male-pl
updated Apr 22, 2015
edited by txustaboy
posted by txustaboy
Thank you :) - Soy_Wink, Apr 22, 2015
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The meaning of buenos or buenas is the same but which to use depends on whether the noun is masculine feminine. In this example, bueno is a masculine adjective and it is used to describe masculine noun "día", and same principle for buena and noche.
Hope it is helpful.
updated Apr 21, 2015
posted by Soy_Wink
Welcome to SpanishDict. - rac1, Apr 20, 2015
