It was perceived as having two syllables and, according to Spanish rules for words ending in n or s, required an accent on the final syllable (e.g., guión). However, many Spanish native speakers, particularly those in Latin America, actually pronounce this word as a monosílabo (...
In Spanish, nouns and adjectives have genders. Generally, nouns ending in "o" are masculine, while those ending in "a" are feminine. The same goes for adjective gender. Adjectives are not only impacted by gender, they can also change according to their position in the sentence. Genders also...
The -CAR, -GAR, -ZAR category of preterite is really a subset of the regular -AR category. La categoría -CAR, -GAR, -ZAR de preterite es realmente un subconjunto de la categoría -AR regular. Below each image, students will provide their text, highlighting the use of imperfect, preteri...
Can you say that these things belong to the people in the sentence. Be sure to make the ending of the word agree with what they own. This quiz contains 8 questions chosen from a bank of 16. 99The future tense in Spanish.Aileen O'Suilleabhain ...
Write each vocabulary word in Spanish on one side of an index card and in English on the other side. You can test yourself by looking at the Spanish word first and translating it into English, or you can have the English appear first to test your recall of the Spanish words. Spending ...
The e ending has become more and more common since Ifirst postedabout it in 2015 (my all time most read post). I like it, but some are insisting on including the a and o as well, so in this case juntos, juntas, y juntes - meaning that e would not capture male and female, but...
To conjugate regular verbs in the present subjunctive, we remove the infinitive ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and add -e, -es, -e, -emos, -éis, -en to -ar verbs and -a, -as, -a, -amos, -áis, -an to -er/-ir verbs.
While Marisol comes from a title of the Virgin Mary—Our Lady of Solitude—it’s also associated with the Spanish words for sea and sun, mar y sol. Marita Marita is a variation of Marisa which means “of the sea”. Maritza Maritza is a Spanish variation of Maria which means “bitter”...