Why is está used for the sentence La mahonesa está deliciosa?
Is it because they're speaking about that specific mayonnaise rather than mayonnaise in general?
Why está?
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Connor L.Kwiziq community member
Why está?
This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Gender and plural of Spanish nouns ending in -esa, -triz, -ina, -isa"
Asked 3 years ago
Marsha C. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
For food and other perishable things we use estar to refer to the condition or taste.
InmaNative Spanish expert teacher in Kwiziq
Hola Connor
Yes, it's using estar because they're referring to the taste of that mayonnaise at the moment of tasting it. If you said "es deliciosa" you'd be referring more to the quality of the mayonnaise, as in it is a product of very good quality (we assume here, the taste is also nice, but it is a more rounded/general meaning with ser - ser talks about the "essence" of things, and estar talks about the state/result of something)
Saludos
Inma
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