Spanish: An Essential Grammar

Adjectives that have a fixed position

Adjectives that substitute for a noun phrase always followtheir accompa-

nying noun:

emisión televisiva emisión de la television

televisión broadcast

giro bancario giro del banco bank transfer

estudios estudios sobre business

empresariales empresas studies

delitos informáticos delitos de la computer

informática crime

Adjectives that indicate nationality, regional origin, religious, ideological

and political beliefs also usually followtheir noun:

comida gallega Galician cuisine

curas católicos Catholic priests

costumbres democráticas democratic practices

Numerals and indefinite adjectives (see Chapter 9) typically precedetheir

noun:

tres amigos three friends varias chicas several girls

Adjectives that do not assign a property to the associated noun always

precedethe noun. Examples are: presunto‘alleged’,mero ‘mere’,pleno

‘full’,dicho ‘the said’,denominado ‘so-called’, andsupuesto/pretendido

‘supposed’:

el presunto asesino the alleged murderer

la mera intención the mere intention

en pleno centro de la ciudad right in the centre of the city

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