Beautiful in Spanish
“Beautiful” in Spanish is hermoso, or hermosa with a feminine noun. It's an adjective, pronounced /eɾˈmo.so/.
In a sentence
La novia lleva un vestido hermoso de color blanco en la iglesia.
The bride wears a beautiful white dress in the church.
Grammar note
Hermoso changes to match its noun: un vestido hermoso, una casa hermosa, and in the plural hermosos and hermosas. Bonito and lindo are everyday words with a similar meaning.
How to remember it
Hermosa Beach in California uses the feminine form of this word. The h is silent, so it's er-MO-so.
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