Spanish Grammar
Below are our 16 articles in the spanish grammar' category:
The main accent used in the Spanish language is the acute: this is how it looks, for example, over an a: á. There are no grave accents – i.e....
As you know, an adjective is a describing word – like, young, old, tall, fat and so on. Let’s look at two kinds which exist in Spanish –...
The word gender means kind or type. In Spanish, nouns (and remember, a noun is a person, place or thing) take one of two genders – masculine or...
Spanish is a very fluid language, and has more than one way of expressing the future. In fact, sometimes the present and future tenses can seem...
Some irregular verbs display the same irregularities, so that if you know one you can predict the forms of any of the others in the same group....
Spanish word order tends to be quite fluid. Because of this, an extra 'pointer' is needed to make clear whether the person is the subject of the...
There are various kinds of personal pronouns in Spanish. This guide takes you through the different kinds - and shows you how to use them.
What...
Por and para are two prepositions which some learners of Spanish can find confusing at first. Essentially, this confusion comes from the fact that...
A unique characteristic of Spanish is the existence of two verbs ‘to be’. The infinitives are ser and estar, and both have their own distinct uses,...
Learners of Spanish find that many Spanish words are similar to their English counterpart. This makes learning the language a little easier as some...
Roughly speaking, the conditional tense translates as ‘would’, ‘should’ or ‘could’ in English, although not necessarily with the same sense of...
The infinitive is the part of the verb you will find most commonly listed in dictionaries. It names a particular activity without saying when it...
The past imperfect tense in Spanish is used to refer to an action in the past, of which the beginning or end is of no relevance to the context. In...
The preterite tense in Spanish normally describes events which are both in the past and completed, or at least described as beginning in the past....
Bear in mind that ‘present tense’ can be a misleading name, since, in Spanish, it can be used to describe timeless and future events.
When to...
The subjunctive is best described as a mood – it means using a completely different verb form so it is not just another tense. Its importance in...
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