Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

Ni siquiera nos llamaron or No nos llamaron siquiera. They didn’t even call us. 32.4.3 Tampoco Tampoco, ‘not... either’, ‘neithe ...

No vino nadie. No one came. 32.4.5 Nunca, jamás Nunca and jamás, ‘never’, are the exact opposites of siempre, ‘always’, all of w ...

33 Reporting 33.1 Direct and indirect speech An important function in language is to report what other people have said. This ma ...

La mía está muy lejos. Mine is very far. Dice que la suya está muy lejos. He/she says his/hers is very far. (c) Pronouns may nee ...

33.3 Reporting statements 33.3.1 Not affecting verb forms 33.3.1.1 With reporting verb in the present or perfect When we report ...

In the second example, if the reporting were done after midday, estar would need to change from the future into the conditional. ...

Yo se lo había dicho a mi mujer. I had told my wife. Dijo que se lo había dicho a su mujer. He said he had told his wife. The im ...

Álvaro preguntó si mamá/su madre recibió/había recibido su carta. Álvaro asked if mother/his mother received/had received his le ...

The use of a reporting verb in the present or the perfect instead of the past (see below) is determined by the proximity of the ...

Me pidió que pasara un día por casa. He/she asked me to drop by his/her house some time. The words said by the original speaker ...

34 Asking and giving personal information In this chapter you will learn different ways of asking and giving personal informatio ...

Mi padre se llama Antonio. My father is called Antonio/My father’s name is Antonio. El hermano de Ana se llama Pablo. Ana’s brot ...

Soy español. I am Spanish. Louise es inglesa. Louise is English.
 22.1 (p. 103);^2 (p. 11) Questions regarding nationality may ...

¿Su estado civil, por favor? Your marital status, please? Or, ¿Cuál es su situación familiar? What is your marital status? You m ...

34.5.1 Date of birth ¿Cuándo nació/ha nacido Vd.? (especially Spain) When were you born? (pol.) ¿Cuándo naciste/has nacido? (esp ...

Yo soy enfermera. Y tú, ¿qué haces? I’m a nurse. And what do you do? To refer to an occupation or activity which is temporary, w ...

35 Identifying people, places and things In this chapter, which deals with identification, you will learn the Spanish equivalent ...

35.2 Identifying places To identify a place, Spanish often uses the verb ser, as in the identification of people, but to ask som ...

36 Describing In this chapter you will learn how to describe people, places and things, including the weather, and you will beco ...

una persona única‘a unique person’ la única persona‘the only person’ (b) The overtone placed on the adjective by the speaker, wh ...