📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 2 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 1 · The grand review: people
Describing people — agreement at speed
Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 2 of 30: The describing system, whole: adjectives after the noun, agreeing in gender and number. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
delgado
thin (m)
dehl-GAH-doh
moreno
dark-haired (m)
moh-REH-noh
casado
married (m)
kah-SAH-doh
soltero
single (m)
sohl-TEH-roh
gracioso
funny (m)
grah-SYOH-soh
viejo
old (m)
BYEH-hoh
un poco
a little
oon POH-koh
tiene los ojos verdes
he has green eyes
TYEH-neh lohs OH-hohs BEHR-dehs
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
The describing system, whole: adjectives after the noun, agreeing in gender and number; ser for what people are, estar for how they feel today. Mi abuelo es viejo pero muy activo. Mi prima es graciosa y un poco tímida.
Y también · And also
Casado (married) and soltero (single), delgado (thin) and moreno (dark-haired) join the set. Tiene los ojos verdes — the Module 1 frame, still the way to describe a face.
Ojo · Watch out
ser for what a person IS (es alta, es casada); estar for how they are right now (está cansada, está contenta). The adjective agrees either way.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with delgado.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 2 in Module 5 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.