Help converting to singular masculine form.
Hello! I just need help with my homework. I have multiple questions formatted like the one below:
Los adjetivos descriptivos. Provide the opposite adjective of the one given below. Your answer should be in the singular, masculine form. fuerte
I actually have no idea what this means or what it is asking me to do. If someone could explain this to me and maybe give an example that would be very helpful. I just started my Spanish class last week, so I'm fairly new. Thanks!
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Also, the assignment asks for the singular masculine form, so, for example, if you were given an adjective like "listas," which is feminine and plural, you would need to remove the "s" and change the "a" to "o" to make "listo." If you were given "fáciles," you would need to remove only the "es," as "fácil" is both masculine and feminine like "fuerte" in Daniela's answer above.
There are a few adjectives that are a bit tricky. Here is a link to a lesson that might help you.
Many of your descriptive adjectives end in "o" and are masculine, like "alto" (tall) To make it feminine to agree with a feminine noun such as "mujer" (woman) you change "also" to "alta"
Words such as "fuerte" (strong) are both masculine and feminine, so you don't have to make a change.
Un hombre fuerte. (a strong man) Unos hombres fuertes (some strong men)
Una mujer fuerte. (a strong woman) Unas mujeres fuertes (some strong women)
If this is not enough to help you let me know.
Welcome to the forum. You are fortunate to have answers from 2 excellent members, both teachers and both of whom could have given you the complete answer.
We tend not to give homework answers but give guidance and correct mistakes. It is often a slog learning a language and at an early stage requires a big effort and learning lots of vocabulary and how to use it. Adjectives are essential. It is a building block eg you learn car and to have and you can say I have a car but how much better to say I have a new blue car. In Spanish adjectives agree with the noun so you have to remember whether it is masculine or female, singular or plural.
It looks like your task is to find pairs of adjectives. At this stage just singular masculine [but I bet you will have to widen your knowledge soon]
The opposite of strong is weak [or feeble] as you are new they are going to be the more common words. If you type 'weak' into the translate at the start of the site it will give you the answer.
You can remember fuerte from the ff on music and the Spanish for weak is from the same source as the English debilitate.
I like word reference to check my vocabulary, but at your level the translator is great.
We encourage you to find the answer then ask further questions as we all know [me from personal experience] if you just copy an answer you are at risk of not remembering the word or understanding the concept.
Good luck or should I type buena suerte [a female adjective which unusually goes before the noun]
