CORRECT ANSWER:
B) El vestido verde de la hija de la hermana de mi amigo.
Possession and ownership sentences in Spanish are more straightforward that in English, because the owner always goes after the “owned” thing, and immediately after the “de” preposition.
el vestido verde = the green dress
de = of
la hija = the daughter
de la hermana = of the sister
de mi amigo = of my friend
If we do a word-by-word translation it would sound awful, but the meaning would be very clear to us: “The green dress of the daughter of the sister of my friend”.
In other words, if you have to translate a very complicated sentence full of recursive or nested “ownership relations”, try to convert them using the preposition “of”. Later translate into Spanish, changing “of” for “de“.
You can watch the following Spanish video-lesson to learn more about this topic:
– Lesson 64: Spanish Preposition “DE” (OF)
– Practice lesson 1
– Practice lesson 2
