{"id":5107,"date":"2012-06-19T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:34:10","slug":"spanish-lesson-intermediate-35-describing-people-negatively-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-intermediate-35-describing-people-negatively-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Lesson Intermediate 35 Describing people negatively in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spanish Lesson Intermediate 35 Describing people negatively in Spanish\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WbwBFAlbB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hola \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<\/p>\n<p>Hoy vamos a ver adjetivos de car\u00e1cter negativos en espa\u00f1ol. Today we will see negative Spanish character adjectives such as Chulo (Arrogant), Pardillo (Naive) and Muermo (Boring).<\/p>\n<p>We will also see how to describe people negatively in Spanish with different sentence structures such as Qu\u00e9 + adjective or Ser + un\/una + pedazo de + adjective, how to use positive Spanish adjectives to describe negative character traits, such as \u201cAmelia va de estrella\u201d (Amelia thinks she is a star), and how to describe negative aspects of others that you don\u2019t think are really that bad.<\/p>\n<p>I would never wish to encourage my students to talk badly about others, but you will still need to be aware of these very commonly used Spanish adjectives and sentence structures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s begin with some common negative Spanish adjectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Agarrado\/a: Tight\/Mean\/Miserly (maiserly)<br \/>\n\u2022 Hortera: Tacky\/Kitsch<br \/>\n\u2022 Repipi: Precocious<br \/>\n\u2022 Pijo\/a: Posh<br \/>\n\u2022 Tiquismiquis: Fussy<br \/>\n\u2022 Carca: Old fashioned\/Fuddy duddy<br \/>\n\u2022 Chulo\/a: Arrogant\/Cocky<br \/>\n\u2022 Cre\u00eddo\/a: Arrogant\/Cocky<br \/>\n\u2022 Payaso\/a: Clown\/Joker<br \/>\n\u2022 Plasta: Annoying\/Pain\/Bore<br \/>\n\u2022 Sob\u00f3n\/a: Lecherous<br \/>\n\u2022 Muermo: Boring<br \/>\n\u2022 Pardillo\/a: Innocent\/Na\u00efve<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next let\u2019s see how to describe people negatively in Spanish with some different sentence structures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ser + un\/una + adjective + monumental:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a1Es un plasta monumental!: He is a huge bore!<\/p>\n<p>Ser + un\/una + pedazo de + adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a1Es una pedazo de tonta!: She is really silly!<\/p>\n<p>Futuro imperfecto of ser + adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a1Ser\u00e1 chulo!: He is so arrogant!<\/p>\n<p>Qu\u00e9 + adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a1Qu\u00e9 muermo!: What a boring man!<\/p>\n<p>Mira que + ser + adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a1Mira que es payasa!: She really is a clown!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now let\u2019s look at using positive Spanish adjectives to talk badly about others:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ir + de + positive adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Amelia va de estrella: Amelia thinks she is a star<\/p>\n<p>Hacerse + el\/la\/los\/las + positive adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Siempre se hace el interesante con las chicas: He acts cool around the girls<\/p>\n<p>Hacerse + el\/la\/los\/las + negative adjective:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mi padre se hace el sordo: My father turns a deaf ear<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, let\u2019s see how to describe negative aspects of others that you don\u2019t think are really that bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No + es + muy + positive adjective + que digamos:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 No es muy inteligente que digamos pero es muy majo: He is not the most intelligent, but he\u2019s a great guy<\/p>\n<p>Ser + un poco + negative adjective (we can add the suffix \u2013illo\/a):<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Es un poco tonto\/tontillo: He\u2019s a bit dopey\/dippy<\/p>\n<p>Many of the adjectives and structures featured in this Spanish lesson are quite colloquial and you will hear them a lot in the street or on Spanish television. If you haven\u2019t started watching TV in Spanish yet, I would like to highly recommend that you do so.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about Spanish TV is that it is freely available on the internet via the websites of the major Spanish TV channels such as TVE1, TVE2, Telecinco, Antena 3 and Cuatro, no matter where you live in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It will of course be difficult to understand at first if you are only just starting to learn Spanish, but it will still be good practice nonetheless to listen to the Spanish dialogue and hear how people really speak.<\/p>\n<p>Watching television in any foreign language is never easy, but it is well worth the effort. Stick with it, watch little and often and make sure that you find programmes that you are genuinely interested in. When you really get into a programme you forget that you are also \u201cstudying\u201d and your command of the foreign language improves in leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n<p>See you next time for more Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Hasta luego!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are enjoying my weekly Spanish lessons. Follow this link for many more great resources to help you <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\">learn Spanish<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal? Hoy vamos a ver adjetivos de car\u00e1cter negativos en espa\u00f1ol. Today we will see negative Spanish character adjectives such as Chulo (Arrogant), Pardillo (Naive) and Muermo (Boring). We will also see how to describe people negatively in Spanish with different sentence structures such as Qu\u00e9 + adjective or Ser + un\/una +&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-intermediate-35-describing-people-negatively-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13,2617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning-2","category-culture","category-grammar","category-vocabulary","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}