by Diana Luciana | Oct 13, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
Spanish pronouns replace nouns so you don’t repeat them. Reflexive pronouns (me, te, se, nos) show the action falls back on the subject: me levanto. Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las) replace the thing: lo veo. Indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, les)...
by Diana Luciana | Sep 7, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
Use ser for what something is: identity, origin, profession and characteristics: soy de Texas, es maestra. Use estar for how something is right now and where it is: estoy cansado, está en casa. The old “permanent vs temporary” rule breaks often; “what it is vs how it...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Aug 23, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
Para points forward. Por looks backward or around. Use para for purpose, destination, deadlines, and the person something is meant for. Use por for reasons, causes, movement through a space, exchange, and duration. Both translate as “for” in English, which...
by Diana Luciana | Jul 14, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
The Spanish subject pronouns are yo (I), tú (you, informal), usted (you, formal), él (he), ella (she), nosotros or nosotras (we), ustedes (you all) and ellos or ellas (they). Spain also uses vosotros for “you all.” Spanish often drops the pronoun, because the verb...
by Diana Luciana | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
The Spanish alphabet has 27 letters: the 26 English letters plus ñ. Ch and ll are not separate letters anymore. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) calls them digraphs, two letters that make one sound, and took them out of the alphabet in 2010. Ch still sounds like the ch...
by Diana Luciana | May 9, 2023 | Blog, Grammar
Spanish has one written accent mark, the tilde on a vowel (á, é, í, ó, ú), plus the ñ and the dieresis (ü). The accent shows which syllable is stressed, as in café, or tells two words apart, as in sí (yes) and si (if). Gracias has no accent, and si meaning “if” never...
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