In Spanish, How do you place adjectives after a noun if it's more than one? ie - good italian food?

Answer 1

Agree with Robert. It depends.

You could say:
Me gusta la buena comida italiana = I like good Italian food.

But you could also say:
Es una comida rica y saludable = It is some delicious and healthy food.

In the case of the 1st example, the adjective "buena" sounds better placed before. "Comida italiana buena" sounds kind of strange.
But if you change it for "deliciosa" (delicious), you could either say: "Disfrutamos una comida italiana deliciosa".
Or: "Disfrutamos una deliciosa comida italiana".
Both mean "We enjoyed a delicious Italian meal" (or "... some delicious Italian food") and both are right and sound well.

.... I've been thinking about this for a while trying to get to some kind of rule (I never thought about this before, and it would have been bothering me for ever if I didn't figure it out!! :-) ), but I guess you'll have to get more used to the use of the language to learn to differenciate which one sounds better in every situation.

The adjective "buena" sounds better placed first ("buen" if it's masculine, when goes first, instead of "bueno").
In other cases, I think it depends on what you want to emphasize in the sentence.
You could never say "italiana comida", it's always "comida italiana", but the second adjective could go before or after. If I wanted to emphasize that the Italian food was delicious, I would say:
Disfrutamos una comida italiana deliciosa.
If I wanted to emphasize that the delicious food that we ate was Italian, I would say:
Disfrutamos una deliciosa comida italiana.

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

Martha is indeed correct, but she should have gone on a bit farther because your example doesn't fit every situation. Here's another situation:

You are a nice, honest person.
Eres una persona linda y honesta.

You see in this case both adjectives come after the noun.

I won't pretend to know more than Martha, as I'm not a native Spanish speaker, I've only been in Mexico for 4 years. It's just that I look at the language as a child as I have had no formal Spanish classes, nor do I have any books on the subject, however, I am an English teacher and I examine the language from that perspective.

Maybe Martha (or someone else) will see this and chime in with other examples to better explain it (to me too).
Rob

Answer 3

In Spanish, the adjectives mainly come after the noun however there are few cases where the adjective comes first. For example, if you want to say "a good idea" that's "una buena idea" I'm not sure about Italian though, although i'd imagine that most come after the noun.

Answer 4

Adjectives do not depend on the pularlity of the noun ,but rather on the plurality of the verb

single verb sentence:
La comida italiana es excelente.
The Italian food is excellent.

double verb sentence:
Hacer buena comida italiano, usted necesita muchas cosas.
To make good Italian food, you need many things.

Note that in the single verb sentence, the adjective I use to describe the Italian food is after the noun ,but in the double verb sentence, the adjective I use to describe Italian food comes before the noun.

Answer 5

good italian food = buena comida italiana