Adjective agreement

Question

Hi:

Just wanted to confirm something about adjective agreement in Spanish.
Adjectives agree with their corrresponding nouns in gender and number right?

For example:

They met with officials from the French and American governments.

Encontraron a los funcionarios de los gobiernos franceses y estadounidenses.

Es correcto'

Answer 1

Hi:

Just wanted to confirm something about adjective agreement in Spanish.

Adjectives agree with their corrresponding nouns in gender and number right?

For example:

They met with officials from the French and American governments.

Encontraron a los funcionarios de los gobiernos franceses y estadounidenses.

Es correcto?
If you are talking about more than one government from either country, that's correct. If you are talking of each government as a unity, you should say "Encontraron a los funcionarios de los gobiernos francés y estadounidense.". This is so because is only one government for each country, but the adjective in plural applies to both.

Answer 2

Ahí te fuiste Heitor, eso es italiano.

Ma che, non si potte parlare italiano in questo foro?

(please don't correct my Italian, I just made that up)

Answer 3

¡Correctís[del]s[/del]imo!

Just be careful with things like "el agua está fría". I've been told even native speakers sometimes get confused by the masculine article in front of a feminine noun.

Ahí te fuiste Heitor, eso es italiano.

En lo de agua fría, sin duda, más de uno y más de dos . Decir cosas como el agua está fría causo estupor entre algunos nativos.

samantha, bienvenida al foro

Please don¡t post all in caps as this is considered shouting.

Answer 4

Just be careful with things like "el agua está fría". I've been told even native speakers sometimes get confused by the masculine article in front of a feminine noun.
... and the invariant nouns where you have to look at the definite article = los artistas

Answer 5

Adjectives agree with their corrresponding nouns in gender and number right?

For example:

They met with officials from the French and American governments.

Encontraron a los funcionarios de los gobiernos franceses y estadounidenses.

Es correcto?

¡Correctíssimo!

Just be careful with things like "el agua está fría". I've been told even native speakers sometimes get confused by the masculine article in front of a feminine noun.