Practice: Calor vs Caliente

Explanation: Caliente means ‘hot’, but it’s only applied as an adjective. In other words, it describes the temperature of something or someone.

Explanation: When using hot to refer to talk about the weather, you must use ‘calor’. As an extra tip, mucho is a quantitative adjective that works with nouns.

Explanation: In this example, we’re trying to describe what the temperature of the cups is. To do this, we need the adjective ‘caliente’. ‘Calor’ is a singular noun that cannot be pluralized.

Explanation: Calor is a noun that we use in Spanish to talk about the weather of a certain place.

Explanation: Caliente is an adjective, meaning that it expresses the quality of a noun. In this case, that noun is water and ‘caliente’ describes its temperature.

Explanation: Calor is a noun related to the weather. For that reason, it can be preceded by a verb or an article.

Explanation: As a noun, calor is always preceded by a verb or an article. This example is not providing the quality of a noun. For that reason, we cannot use ‘caliente’.

Explanation: Although ‘calor’ and ‘caliente’ mean ‘hot’, you must use calor when describing or talking about the weather.

Explanation: This sentence is explaining how the temperature of these months are. Calientes is the right answer because it’s a descriptive adjective. Notice that ‘meses’ is plural, so the adjective must reflect this information.