Guess what? Apart from nearly
all adjectives going after the noun
in Spanish, if you use several you
can use them in any order you like!
Just remember that if you have two
together, you need ‘and’ in between
them, and a longer list will have
commas in between them until you
get to the last two.
He’s wearing dirty old jeans – Lleva
vaqueros sucios y viejos
He’s wearing long, dirty, old jeans
- Lleva vaqueros largos, sucios y
viejos.
As I said though, nearly all adjectives
go after the noun. So that obviously
means that some go before the noun.
Some of those must go before the
noun, some can go before or after,
& some change the meaning of the
sentence depending upon where they
are.
Adjectives which always go
before the noun
This is the most useful group to try
to remember. If it isn’t in this group,
then it goes after the noun, or it
doesn’t make a difference – so put it
after the noun & you can’t go wrong!
cardinal numbers – uno, dos, tres etc.
ordinals – primer, segundo, tercer
etc.
possessive adjectives – mi, tu, su etc.
Quantity words – bastante,
suficiente, demasiado
best – mejor
worst – peor