Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

La casa que compramos es estupenda. The house we bought is very good. Articles (see 4 ) There are two kinds of article in Spanis ...

Iré mañanao pasado. I’ll go tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Habla españolpero no muy bien. He/she speaks Spanish but not ver ...

As a rough guide, the indicative is associated with statements and assertions, the imperative with orders and commands, and the ...

No te habíavisto. I hadn’t seen you. Past participles can also function as adjectives, in which case they must agree in gender a ...

Él nada muy bien. He swims very well. (subject pronoun) No conozco a Elvira. I don’t know Elvira. Nola conozco. I don’t know her ...

Tense Tenses are different forms of the verb which, amongst other things, refer to different times (the present, imperfect, futu ...

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1 Pronunciation and spelling Pronunciation is described here using the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. 1.1 The S ...

otherwise the fricative sound [γ] (like [g] but with the contact between tongue and soft palate not quite made). haga [aγa] Befo ...

after other consonants it is pronounced [rr]. rr is pronounced as a ‘trill’ or ‘roll’ [rr] (with vibration of the tongue). r at ...

NOTE Since Spanish spelling attempts to reflect pronunciation, spelling changes often take place in related words: feliz felices ...

tra-er a-ho-ra fe-o A single consonant followed by a vowel is grouped into the same syllable as the following vowel. bue-no a-la ...

pa-pel a-rre-ba-tar ha-blan mu-je-res com-pra-mos ter-mi-na e-qui-va-len-te Any departure from this situation is marked by the w ...

1.5.4 Adverbs(see 14.1) Adverbs formed from a feminine adjective + -mente preserve any written accent that normally is used with ...

La verdad es que yo mi infancia y mi adolescencia las recuerdo, como una época muy feliz. The truth is that I remember my childh ...

2 Gender and gender agreements 2.1 Masculine and feminine All nouns in Spanish belong to either the masculine (m.) or the femini ...

However, because the juxtaposition of a noun and adjective of different genders sounds odd in Spanish, this rule is sometimes br ...

2.6 Agreement classes of adjectives There are several diferent patterns of agreement for adjectives in Spanish: Class 3. A large ...