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Nov 18, 2022 · Basic Sentences in Spanish: Greetings. Use these basic sentences in Spanish as both formal and informal greetings. You can use them as introductions, when you arrive at a new place, or meet new people. 1. ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? Hi! How are you? 2. ¿Qué tal todo? How is everything? 3. ¿Cómo has estado? How have you been? 4. ¿Cómo te va?
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- The Basics of Spanish Sentence Structure
- Word Order in Different Types of Sentences
- Exposing Yourself to Spanish Sentence Structure
Sentence structure involves the word order in a sentence. It’s how you put all the parts together to form grammatically correct sentences. The typical word order in Spanish is SVO (Subject, Verb, Object).This is the same as in English, but there can be big differences between the two languages, and we don’t always use this formula. Spanish is a ver...
In the following points, we’ll go over word order in all the main types of sentences and questions. You’ll also learn where to insert Spanish adjectives and adverbs in the sentence, and how the meaning can be different if you make some little changes.
You can get a better understanding of Spanish sentence structure by seeing it in actual Spanish-language content. For example, you can read a simple Spanish book and note key sentence structure elements. If it’s your book, you could mark it up, writing the part of speech, form, tense, etc. of each word in the sentence. You can also use FluentU to h...
May 16, 2024 · 1. Every Spanish sentence needs a subject and a verb (at the minimum). Subject + verb + object. When a subject can be omitted. 2. Use the right gender. 3. Use the right article. 4. Adjectives come after nouns in Spanish sentences. 5. Connect subjects with verbs/other parts of speech with “to be” verbs. 6.
- Every Spanish Sentence Needs A Subject and A verb.To make a normal, affirmative sentence, you need a subject and a verb. That’s it. If we imagine our subject is “Juan“—to use a typical Spanish name...
- Adjectives Come After Nouns in Spanish sentences.This is where English speakers are likely to make mistakes. Imagine that Juan has green eyes and we want to say so in Spanish. We need to write tha...
- Adverbs Function in Spanish Like They Do in English.Like in English, Spanish adverbs are used to describe verbs.For example, “Juan lee rápidamente” (Juan reads quickly). How does he read? He reads qu...
- to Make A Spanish Sentence Negative, Add “No” Before The verb.At some point, unless you are the most positive person in the world, you’re going to want to make your sentences negative.The good news is that in...
- There Are Three Ways to Make Questions in Spanish.Unless your entire conversation is going to be one-sided (perhaps as you’re talking to Juan the cat), you’ll also likely want to ask questions. Aga...
- Declarative sentences. The main purpose of declarative sentences is to provide information about a particular event or situation. In Spanish these sentences are called afirmativas or enunciativas.
- Negation sentences. It’s probably no surprise that a negation sentence (una oración negativa in Spanish) is used to deny a fact. Just like declarative sentences, negation sentences can be expressed in any tense.
- Asking questions. Naturally, asking questions (with question sentences, or oraciones interrogativas in Spanish) is something you’ll want to do daily. Just like in English, in Spanish we often use questions to express commands or make suggestions, but more moderately or politely.
- Sentences with adjectives. We use adjectives to describe or modify other words, to make our ideas more specific. Sentences with adjectives are not necessarily a class of Spanish sentence structures unto themselves, but we’ll go into them here because the word order of these sentences depends on the adjectives.
This lesson covers the parts and structure of basic Spanish sentences: subject, verb and complement. You’ll learn how to make sentences in Spanish by listening to examples with adjectives and common verbs in the present, past and future tense. Practice building sentences with a quiz.
1. A Complete Sentence Requires a Subject and a Verb. A complete sentence in Spanish must have a subject and a verb. The subject is the part of a sentence that contains the person or thing performing the action, while the verb expresses the action or state of being of the subject.
