Do you want to learn how to describe people’s personality in Spanish? This is very useful when you are talking with someone in Spanish. You just need to learn some adjectives and verbs. At the end of the article, you will find some interactive exercises to practice.
How to describe people’s personality in Spanish
The verbs used to describe people’s personality in Spanish are «SER», (TO BE) in English and «PARECER» (TO APPEAR, TO SEEM) in English.
When we know well the person that we want to describe, we use «ser» but when we don’t know well the person, and we are not sure about how the personality of the person is, we use «parecer»
Juan es un chico paciente / Pablo is a patient boy
Laura parece una chica inteligente / Laura seems an intelligent girl
The intensifiers
| muy | very |
| bastante | quite |
| poco | a bit |
María es muy trabajadora / Maria is very hard-working
Juan es bastante simpático / Juan is quite friendly
Usually, we use «un poco» to make softer the adjectives considered negatives.
Victor es un poco egoista / Victor is a bit selfish
Here you are the list with the previous personality adjectives and the opposites in English and Spanish.
| divertido/a | funny | aburrido/a | boring |
| abierto/a | open-minded | cerrado/a | closed-minded |
| serio/a | serious | alegre | cheerful |
| simpático/a majo/a | friendly nice | antipático/a | unpleasant nasty |
| tímido/a | shy | extrovertido/a | outgoing |
| trabajador/a | hard-working | perezoso/a | lazy |
| interesante | interesting | aburrido/a | boring |
| inteligente | intelligent | tonto/a | stupid / idiot |
| agradable | nice | desagradable | disagreeable/ unpleasant |
| sociable | sociable | insociable | unsociable |
| paciente | patient | impaciente | impatient |
| responsable | responsible | irresponsable | irresponsible |
| egoista | selfish | generoso/a | generous |
Personality adjectives in Spanish: The gender
In Spanish adjectives ending in – O are masculine and adjectives ending in – A, are feminine
Adjectives ending in -ISTA like «egoísta» and adjectives ending in -E like «amable» can be both masculine and feminine, and they don’t change.
Es una mujer egoísta / es un hombre egoísta
Es una chica amable / es un chico amable
How to describe people’s personality in Spanish
LET’S PRACTICE…
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