With these adjectives you can't use the VERY / MUY - 5 minutes of Spanish + Podcast

 

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No, Eduardo, this is not a cooking podcast, it's a Spanish podcast, so we're going to talk about the adjectives we use to say something is tasty...or not.

 

In our cooking and Spanish experience, I always get told: está muy rico or muy bueno.

Muy rico o delicioso

 

Especially when we have the banana margarita...Seriously speaking, adjectives that already have an intensified meaning, cannot be combined with "muy".

 

For example, delicious. If you say that a dish is delicious or tasty, you shouldn't use “muy”.

 

Exactly, it is a quite common mistake, although it is not serious, it sounds wrong. In these cases you can say:

 

Este plato está verdaderamente delicioso.         This dish is really delicious.

 

Esta salsa está realmente sabrosa                     This sauce is really tasty.

 

This also happens with the following adjectives:

 

Fantástico – Este libro es realmente fantástico This book is really fantastic.

 

Maravilloso- Este crucero es verdaderamente maravilloso. This cruise is truly wonderful.

 

Precioso/preciosa   Esta playa es realmente preciosa.         This beach is really beautiful.

 

Increíble   Esta clase es verdaderamente increíble.               This class is truly amazing.

 

Horrible   Esta película es realmente horrible.                         This movie is really horrible.

 

Genial   La clase estuvo realmente genial.                              The class was really great

 

Pretty easy, isn't it? With these adjectives you can't use the VERY. It's very tasty or delicious.

 

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