267; with own subject 195;
replacing subjunctive after verbs of
influence 147, 189; see also
commands, paraand por, perfect
infinitive, word order
interrogatives seequestions
ir: + a= future/conditional tense
134n, 135n; + gerund 199; gerund
form 123; imperfect tense 115;
present indicative and subjunctive
113; preterite 118
irse 173
-ísimo/-ísimamente274–6
-ito(suffix) 295, 296, 297
-izo(suffix) 293
jamás250–1
lafor le(laísmo) 83n
Latin American Spanish 305–16;
gender and stress 313; intensive ser
311; leand lo309; preterite for
perfect 310; pronunciation 305–6;
quefor el que, quien, cuandoetc.
310–11; sequence of tenses with
subjunctive 309–10; ustedesfor
vosotros306–7; vocabulary
differences 311–13, 314–16; see
alsovos
le: for lo(leísmo) 82 (in LA 309);
other uses of leand les82–3
llevar: in expressions of time 142–3
llevarse 173
lo: before adjectives, adverbs and
past participles 41; + de + noun 42;
in idioms 42; neuter article 40–2
lo cual‘which’ (relative) 260–1
lo mismo‘the same thing’ 276
lo que: ‘what’ 42; relative 260–1, 265
mal(o): position 61; short form 56
más268; + adjective in exclamations
282; + bien‘rather’ 269n1; see also
comparatives
mayor: cf. más grande269–70
medio245–6n1
mejor: for más bueno/bien 269
menor: cf. más pequeño269–70
menos268; see alsocomparatives
-mento/-miento (suffixes) 293–4
mero: cf Peninsular and LA uses 314
mil/millón241–2
mismo276; with reflexive pronoun
79
mitad246n2
modal verbs (e.g. deber, poder)
182–7
mucho87–8
nada 250
nada más+ infinitive 250n4
nada más que‘nothing except’ 276
nadie250; +más que‘nobody
except’ 276
negation 248–54; combinations of
negatives 252–3; double negatives
248, 249; Spanish affirmative
phrases with negative meaning
254; Spanish negatives with
affirmative meaning 254; see also
individual words
neuter article seelo
ni251; + queas exclamation 251n3
ninguno251–2; short form 56
no248–9; ‘of course not’ 253;
superfluous no253; no (solo)...
sino253; no+ verb + más que/sino
253
¿no? 282
no más/nomás: in LA 316
no más que‘only’ 276
nouns 13–26; categories 13;
collective 26, 246–7; compound
304; gender 18–25 (doubtful 25,
dual 19, 24–5, of endings 21–4,
masculine plural for mixed gender
groups 20, new feminine nouns
20); mass nouns 18; plural forms
13–18 (compound nouns 16,
foreign words 16–17, always
plural nouns 17–18, no distinct
plural 15, spelling changes in
plural 15)
numerals 238–47; approximate
numbers 240; cardinals 238–44 (in
calculations 244, gender of 240n4,
punctuation 238n1, telephone
numbers 238n3, use of y238n2);
1111
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1011
1
12111
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
20111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
30111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
40
41111
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