Lesson 3.2.2 · Adjetivos esenciales
🔍 Describing Things
Adjectives, comparisons, and the small words that let you describe anything — from the price to the weather to your mood.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Core adjectives
Adjectives agree with nouns: 'limpio/limpia/limpios/limpias'. The endings change but the meaning stays the same.
good
better
big
small
clean
favorite
different
the same
nice
light
great
wrong
easy
hard
Example sentences
Hoy estoy bueno.
Today I feel good.
Mi amigo es muy mejor.
My friend is very better.
La comida está grande.
The food is big.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy bueno.
My friend is very good.
La comida está mejor.
The food is better.
Comparing and quantifying
'Más alto que' = taller than. 'Demasiado' = too much (more than you want). 'El tipo' / 'la cosa' are catch-all words for 'kind of thing'.
than
too much
kind / type
thing
things
to spend
Example sentences
Hoy estoy que.
Today I feel than.
Mi amigo es muy demasiado.
My friend is very too much.
Me gusta el tipo.
I like the kind / type.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy que.
My friend is very than.
La comida está demasiado.
The food is too much.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
too much
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
grande
pequeño
light
kind / type
fácil
great
Fill the blank
La comida está _____.
The food is big.
Fill the blank
Hoy estoy _____.
Today I feel than.
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