Types of Spanish Adjectives

Whether a descriptive adjective comes before or after the noun it modifies can affect how it is understood in Spanish.

A lesson for beginners in the use of demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those) in Spanish.

Lesson on the use of Spanish possessive adjectives, also called determiners. These are the equivalent of word such as 'his,' 'her' and 'my.'

An explanation of the adjectives of quantity of Spanish with sample sentences.

Learn how the indefinite adjectives are Spanish are used differentlly than the ones of English.

Spanish typically uses the plural indefinite articles 'unos' or 'unas' to mean 'some' or 'a few.'

English adjectives based on verbs and ending in '-ing' can be translated into Spanish in a variety of ways. One of them is the use of adjectival present participles, which typically end in '-ante' or '-ente.'

A participle can function as either a verb or an adjective.

The participle is one type of verb form that can also be used as an adjective.

Past participles, which exist in both Spanish and English, are a verb form that can be used as an adjective and sometimes a noun.

In Spanish, invariable adjectives are often nouns functioning as adjectives, although nouns are used that way in Spanish much less than in English. Names of colors, especially unusual ones, often as invariable adjectives.

The interrogative adjectives are those used in in questions before nouns. Here is a guide to their use in Spanish.

The distinction isn't a hard and fast one, but placing a descriptive adjective before a noun often gives it an emotive or figurative quality, while an adjective placed after a noun is generally understood to be merely descriptive.

How many? How much? Unless you can answer with numbers, to respond to questions like those you'll probably need to use one of the adjectives of quantity.

Indefinite adjectives are often the equivalent of English adjectives such as "each," "some," "every" and "all."

Demonstrative adjectives are those adjectives whose function is to point at something.

An explanation of how comparatives and superlatives are formed in Spanish, with links to related lessons.