EL ARTÍCULO

El artículo determina y actualiza a un nombre con el que concuerda en género y número. El español, a pesar de no conservar el género neutro, ha heredado del latín la forma neutra "lo" en el artículo. Se utiliza para sustantivar a los adjetivos, más adelante veremos sus usos y valores.

INTRODUCTION

GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS
Source: RAE (Real Academia Española). Adapted for beginners

A B C D E F G H I J K L LL M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

BEGINNER LEVEL

Acento (Accent): added vocal emphasis in the pronunciation of a syllable. There are two kinds of accents:

INTRODUCTION

The adverbios (adverbs) are invariable words that complement the verb. They indicate time, place, manner and quantity. They can be placed anywhere in the sentence:

Mañana viene Juan. (Tomorrow, Juan comes)

Juan viene mañana. (Juan comes tomorrow)

ADVERBS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

In this unit we’ll look at a few of the preposiciones (prepositions) in Spanish, when they’re used and what they express. Pay special attention to the examples.

THE PREPOSITIONS IN SPANISH

Introduction

In the following unit we’ll continue with the verb. We’ll explain the preterito imperfecto, the pretérito perfecto simple and the pretérito perfecto compuesto, the difference between them and their uses. A diagram will be used to illustrate the verb endings of the perfect tense and the verbal forms with a model for each conjugation. We’ll dedicate a section to discuss the verbs with se, since they usually cause some confusion in Spanish

THE PRETÉRITO IMPERFECTO

THE VERB III: SER (TO BE), ESTAR (TO BE) & HABER (TO HAVE)
The verbs ser, estar and haber are irregular and used very frequently in Spanish.

PRESENT SER:
Yo soy
Tú eres
Él/ella/usted es
Nosotros/-as somos
Vosotros/-as sois
Ellos/-as son
USES OF THE VERB SER:
1. Identifying a person:

• Ella es Ana y él es Juan. (She is Ana and he is Juan)
• Este edificio es un palacio. (This building is a palace)

2. Profession:

THE VERB II
PRESENT-TENSE . IRREGULAR VERBS
Verbos irregulares (irregular verbs) don’t follow a set rule in all their forms. The cause can be phonetic changes, meaning some vowel or consonant changes.
For example, with the verb querer (to want or love) the three forms of the singular maintain –ie while in the plural form it loses the –i and maintains only the –e. With poder (to be able to), the second and third person in plural lose the –u. With coger (to get), the first person singular is written with a –j while for the rest of its forms it maintains the –g.
Following are a few of the most frequent irregular verbs.
There are various types of verbos irregulares (irregular verbs):
By a change in vowels:
e > ie: querer
o > ue: poder

INTRODUCTION

TONIC PERSONAL PRONOUNS

The tonic pronouns are those that can function as: