ANTE TODO As you learned, the verb estar is used to talk about how you feel and to say where people, places, and things are located. Estar is also used.

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1 ANTE TODO As you learned, the verb estar is used to talk about how you feel and to say where people, places, and things are located. Estar is also used with adjectives to talk about certain emotional and physical conditions.

2 La habitación está sucia. La puerta está cerrada.
Estar is used with adjectives to describe the physical condition of places and things. La habitación está sucia. La puerta está cerrada. The room is dirty. The door is closed. Estar is also used with adjectives to describe how people feel, both mentally and physically.  Estoy aburrida. ¿Quieren hacer algo? I'm bored. Do you want to do something?  No, estoy cansada. No, I'm tired.

3 Adjectives that describe emotions and conditions
abierto/a open aburrido/a bored; boring alegre happy; joyful avergonzado/a embarrassed cansado/a tired cerrado/a closed cómodo/a comfortable confundido/a confused

4 Adjectives that describe emotions and conditions
contento/a happy; content desordenado/a disorderly enamorado/a (de) in love (with) enojado/a mad; angry equivocado/a wrong feliz happy limpio/a clean

5 Adjectives that describe emotions and conditions
listo/a ready nervioso/a nervous ocupado/a busy ordenado/a orderly preocupado/a (por) worried (about) seguro/a sure sucio/a dirty triste sad

6 ¡ATENCIÓN! Two important expressions with estar that you can use to talk about conditions and emotions are: estar de buen humor to be in a good mood estar de mal humor to be in a bad mood

7 ¡INTÉNTALO! Provide the present tense forms of estar, and choose which adjective best completes the sentence. 1. La biblioteca ___ (cerrada / nerviosa) los domingos por la noche. 2. Nosotros ___ muy (ocupados / equivocados) todos los lunes. 3. Ellas ___ (alegres / confundidas) porque tienen tiempo libre. 4. Javier ___ (enamorado / ordenado) de Maribel. 5. Diana ___ (enojada / limpia) con su novio. 1 of 2 

8 ¡INTÉNTALO! Provide the present tense forms of estar, and choose which adjective best completes the sentence. 6. Yo ___(nerviosa / abierta) por el viaje. 7. La habitación ___ (ordenada / segura) cuando vienen sus padres. 8. Ustedes no comprenden; ___ (equivocados / tristes). 9. Marina y yo ___ (preocupados / aburridos) por el examen. 10. Usted ___ muy (cansado / sucio) los lunes por la mañana. 2 of 2