Are the Strawberries Fresh? (part 2 of 3) 🔒

Half of shopping is finding what you came for and making sure it is any good. Finish this part and you can ask where something is kept, find out whether it arrived that morning, and say what size bag you need.

This stretch of the conversation deals with location, freshness, and choices. You put together questions like ¿Dónde están los aguacates? and ¿Están frescas las fresas?, and you learn to follow the answers, which arrive as short directions such as al fondo or on the shelf a la derecha. Adjective agreement quietly does a lot of work here, since cebollas blancas and una caja pequeña both change their endings to match what they describe. Asking where something is kept is a phrase you will reach for constantly, in supermarkets, pharmacies, and hardware stores just as much as at a produce stand, so it is worth drilling until it comes out automatically.