Adverbs ending in -mente and the structure of Spanish adjectivesFábregas Alfaro, Antonio
Exception: Adjectives ending in -erior do not have a feminine form. examples Está en el patio exterior del edificio. He's in the back patio of the building. Está en la parte posterior del edificio. He's in the back part of the building. Now, check out this fancy summary table of ...
Now that you've got the rules for words ending in a vowel down, let's learn about words that end in a consonant. 1. Add-es Rule: If a singular noun ends in a vowel plusyor the consonantsl, r, n, d, z, j, s, x,orch, add-es. ...
Articles and adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. Adjectives follow nouns, e.g., el/un hombre simpático‘the/a nice man’, la/una mujer simpática ‘the/a nice woman’, los/unos hombres simpáticos ‘the/some nice men’, las/unas mujeres simpáticas ‘the/...
Modern Spanish has five simple vowels (a, o, e, i, u), a large number of diphthongs and triphthongs, and 18 consonants—16 hard and two soft (Ilandñ). Words ending in a vowel,n, orsare accented on the penultimate syllable (Dolores; canto, “song,”“singing”), and words endi...
Now that we’ve covered the basics, we’ll get you started on thesaberconjugation by taking a look at its verbals. These are the infinitive, the gerund and the participle. Verbals can be tricky because they actually function as nouns, adjectives and adverbs instead of actual verbs. But don...
Mary is the thinnest in the class. The absolute superlative for adjectives has three possible forms. muy + adjective sumamente + adjective adjective + ísimo (-a, -os, -as) The following translations are somewhat arbitrary. Each superlative statement is a little stronger than the one that prec...
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butun gatitois a kitten. In English we sometimes do the same thing by adding "-y." The most common diminutive is-ito(or its feminine equivalent,-ita), sometimes expanded to-citoor, less commonly,-illoor even-zuelo. You can add one of these endings to manynounsand adjectives to arrive...
We form Spanish adverbs (los adverbios) by adding the ending -mente to the feminine form of the adjective. Some adverbs have the same form as masculine singular adjectives. Learn to form Spanish adverbs correctly with Lingolia’s quick and easy examples,