When you want to say "very bad grades" do you say "muy malas notas" or "notas muy malas"??
2007-04-12 08:33:50 · 11 answers · asked by beautyqueenjustine 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
both it all depends on the way ur sayingit the person
2007-04-12 08:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by moniquita 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they´re both fine. Notice that when spanish speakers talk of something as good or bad (bueno, buen, buena, malo, mala) They more often than not put the these two adjectives before the noun it´s modifying. I have some examples from the forumns on www.wordreference.com, but see how these sound to the native speakers:
Buenas/malas noticias
Buen muchacho, buena muchacha (bueno becomes buen before the noun)
but you can equally say
Chica mala, día malo, or buen día (remember 100 years of solitude? the Last name of the family in Márquez´s novel was Buendía.
As for the added muy, we can do an english-spanish search for "grade" from wordreference.com and find the following:
2 Educ mark, grade: tiene muy mala notas en matemáticas, she has a bad mark in maths
Notice the example, which is from Diccionario Espasa Concise out of Madrid, Spain
2007-04-12 09:08:29 · answer #2 · answered by Matt S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Muy malas notas.
2007-04-12 08:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
notas muy malas
2007-04-12 08:36:35 · answer #4 · answered by Ambitious27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Martha. Both are correct. You can say ' Tuve notas muy malas' or 'Tuve muy malas notas'.
2007-04-12 09:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Diego A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
notas muy malas
The noun before the verbs.
2007-04-12 08:38:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
in the spanish lanugage the adjective(descrivber) goes after the noun
very bad grades-----> muy notas males
2007-04-12 08:38:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question- I always go to Altavista Babel Fish translation page which shows:
grados muy malos
notas=notes
So you were saying very bad notes...
2007-04-12 08:40:12 · answer #8 · answered by wonder woman 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
muy malas notas. denada. i speako espanol. not really. but i'm pretty darn sure that's right. if i'm wrong you can, uh, do nothing, actually.
2007-04-12 08:36:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Both are correct depending on what you want to say.
Guys please stop saying that in Spanish the adjective goes after the name. In principle, yes, but it is NOT always like that.
2007-04-12 08:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by Martha P 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋