1.
I am bald.
[Soy] calvo.

2.
You have gotten bald.
[Estás] calvo.

3.
I am a happy person.
[Soy] feliz.

4.
I am happy.
[Estoy] feliz.

5.
We are poor (at least for now).
[Estamos] pobres.

6.
We are poor.
[Somos] pobres.

7.
You look very pretty.
[Estás] muy guapa.

8.
You are very pretty.
[Eres] muy guapa.

9.
The political situation is about to change.
La situación política [está] por cambiar.

10.
The television is broken.
El televisor [está] estropeado.

11.
She is a waitress in France.
[Es] camarera en Francia.

12.
She is working as a waitress in France.
[Está] de camarera en Francia.

13.
What is your house like? It is green and small.
¿Cómo [es] tu casa? [Es] verde y pequeña.

14.
The bananas are unripe.
Las bananas [están] verdes.

15.
She is always affectionate.
Siempre [es] cariñosa.

16.
You must be kinder to him.
Tienes que [ser] más amable con él.

17.
The situation is chaotic.
La situación [está, es] caótica.

18.
He is a very boring professor.
[Es] un profesor muy aburrido.

19.
The professor is very bored.
El profesor [está] muy aburrido.

20.
He is evil.
[Es] malo.

21.
He is ill.
[Está] malo.

22.
Where is the party?
¿Dónde [es] la fiesta?

23.
Where is the house?
¿Dónde [está] la casa?

24.
The pizza is ready.
La pizza [está] lista.

25.
She is smart.
Ella [es] lista.


01. característica
02. The focus is on the change in state of having hair to not having it any more.
03. característica de personalidad
04. condición
05. estado temporal
06. The speaker here views their condition of poverty as a more permanent state. This may be a little difficult for us to understand coming from our cultural perspective.
07. estado (This comment would not be an underhanded way of saying that otherwise she does not look pretty.)
08. característica física
09. This is an expression, estar + por + infinitivo, which communicates something that is about to happen and is therefore indicative of a temporary state.
10. estado del televisor
11. profesión
12. actividad temporal
13. característica
14. condición; The bananas will soon change in color.
15. característica de personalidad
16. característica de personalidad
17. ser: emphasis on the characteristic of the situation; estar: emphasis on the condition of the situation (Basically ser and estar are interchangeable here.)
18. característica de personalidad
19. estado de ánimo
20. característica
21. condición
22. lugar de un evento
23. lugar de una cosa o ubicación
24. condición de la pizza
25. característica