Homework Help: Spanish

Posted by Mary on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 12:53pm.

The sentences are: "Es un profesor muy bueno y un buen padre." and "Su padre es médico y es un gran hombre." Why is bueno used in the first instance and buen in the second? And why is gran used instead of grande? The dictionary says that buen and gran are contractions, but I don't understand why the regular forms (bueno or grande) can't be used instead.

Spanish - drwls, Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 12:59pm
Gran/grande, and buen/bueno(a) are equivalent in meaning, but the shorter version must be used when the adjective precedes the noun.
Spanish - SraJMcGin, Monday, February 22, 2010 at 1:24am
When the adjective precedes a masculine singular noun.
Es un buen chico
Es una buena chica
Son unos buenos chicos
Son unas buenas chicas.

Sra
Spanish - minka, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 10:29am
masculine and feminine i think i'm not AMAZING at spanish because i used to do french but masculine and feminine are the main culprits

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