Using the Spanish Adjective Grande

Utilizing the Spanish Adjective Grande Grande is among the most well-known descriptive words of Spanish and one of the first to be scholarly by understudies. Grande Meaning Large or Big The most widely recognized significance of grande is essentially huge or enormous: Viven en una casa grande. (They live in an enormous house.)Mi nieta tiene las manos grandes como su padre. (My granddaughter has enormous hands like her father.) ¿Sabes cul es la ciudad ms grande del paã ­s? (Do you know which city is the countrys largest?)Madrid es una ciudad grande. (Madrid is a huge city.)El ca㠱ã ³n ms grande del Sistema Solar est en Marte. (The biggestâ canyon in the nearby planetary group is on Mars.)El estadio ms grande de tenis del mundo ya tiene techo retrctil. (The universes biggest tennis arena presently has a retractable rooftop.) In setting, grande can likewise allude explicitly to tallness, as opposed to measure as such: Period un hombre grande y flaco. (He was a tall and lean man.)En baloncesto un jugador grande y bueno siempre ser mejor para el equipo que uno bajo y bueno. (In b-ball, a tall, great player will consistently be preferred for the group over a short, great player.) Like the English word large, grande can allude to being a grown-up as appeared differently in relation to being youngster, or to being more seasoned: Cuando ocean grande voy a ser dentista. (When Im greater/more seasoned, Im going to be a dentist.)Cautivà ³ el corazã ³n de grandes y chicos. (She enraptured the hearts of the old and the young.)Es mi hermana grande. (Shes my enormous/more seasoned sister.)Estoy muy grande para jugar este juego. (Im excessively old for playing this game.) Grande Referring to Greatness Particularly when it precedes the thing, grande can allude to a person or thing being outstanding. It is frequently then what might be compared to incredible. Note than when grande precedes a solitary thing, it is abbreviated to gran: Mi madre dijo que Gerald Ford fue un gran presidente. (My mom said Gerald Ford was an incredible president.)Fue una gran pelã ­cula ignorada por la prensa. (It was an extraordinary film disregarded by the press.)Unos dicen que el calamiento worldwide es la gran mentira de nuestro dã ­a. (Some state an unnatural weather change is the incredible lie of our day.)I (The players attempt to leave the gambling club with the best prize possible.)No feed grandes diferencias entre realidad y ficciã ³n, ni entre lo verdadero y lo falso. (That are no immense contrasts among the real world and fiction, nor among truth and lie.) Different Meanings of Grande Grande can allude to the bigger metropolitan region of a city: La pesca comercial proporciona alrededor de 10.000 empleos en el gran Seattle. (Business fishing utilizes around 10,000 specialists in the Seattle area.)La gran Roma est llena de arcos de triunfo. (More prominent Rome is brimming with triumphal curves.) At the point when it doesnt allude to measure, grande for the most part alludes to force: Es con gran tristeza que anunciamos el fallecimiento de nuestro querido amigo. (It is with profound distress that we declare the demise of our dear friend.)Es una felicidad grande que Angelina piense en mã ­. (Its an extraordinary pleasure that Angelina is considering me.)Puedes ajustar las ventanas pero con gran dificultad. (You can modify the windows, yet with much difficulty.)Era la primera nevada grande en diez aã ±os. (It was the first substantial snowfall in quite a while.) Grande in Phrases Grande is likewise utilized in different expressions: a lo grande - on a major scale: Si piensas a lo grande, puedes hacerlo a lo grande. (On the off chance that you plan for an impressive future, you can do big.)en grande - on a major scale: Alajuela celebra en grande la gesta heroica de Juan Santamarã ­a. (Alajuela celebrates on a grande scale the chivalrous accomplishment of Juan Santamarã ­a.grandes mentes, grandes pensadores - extraordinary personalities, incredible scholars: Las grandes mentes piensan igual. (Incredible personalities think alike.)el hueso grande - the capitate bone (of the hand): El hueso grande es el à ºnico entre tasks los del carpo que puede dislocarse. (The capitate bone is the just one among each one of those of the carpus that can be dislocated.)la semana grande - the last seven day stretch of Lent: El periodo de los siete dã ­as bets de la Pascua denominamos la semana grande.) (The seven-day time frame before Easter makes up the last seven day stretch of Lent. Semana Grande can likewise allude to seven days in August, known as Aste Nagusia, that is commended in northern Spain.)