From Day 4: La cinco (Number five)

La cinco está libre

La stands for the understood feminine noun máquina.

Hear it in the conversation

  • Yolanda

    La cinco está libre.

    Number five is available.

Compare the familiar es with the new está:

  • Es mi abuela Fina — identifies who she is.
  • La cinco está libre — describes the machine’s current state.

Notes explain it. The conversation makes it stick.

In Formula 100 you hear each phrase in a short scene first, then recall it from memory. The phrases come back in your review deck just before you’d forget them. From Week 2, you also rebuild each conversation in Spanish a week later.