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Grammar is a set of guidelines and norms that indicate how words, structures, sounds, and sentences work and are formed in Spanish. Having a basic understanding of grammar allows you to speak Spanish more correctly and avoid learning any bad habits that will set you back.
- Nouns. Nouns are essentially the name for any person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea or action. As with English, Spanish nouns have several classifications.
- Pronouns. Pronouns are words which are used in the place of a noun (e.g. using “he,” “she” or “they” in place of using someone’s actual name). Spanish however has a few more pronouns than we’re used to in English.
- Articles. An article is a word which identifies a part of a speech as a noun, without actually describing it. It sounds complicated but it all makes sense when you see what the English equivalent would be: in this case, articles in English are “the,” “a” and “an.”
- Verbs. Verbs are words used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. Using verbs in Spanish is a bit more complex than in English—the following section has a run down of the most important things you should know.
Jul 26, 2023 · Request or demand something. Express feelings and emotions about an event. Communicate doubts and possibilities. Unlike the indicative mood that focuses on certainty and reality, the subjunctive in Spanish is highly hypothetical. Check these examples: Ojalá tengas un buen viaje. I hope you have a good trip. Les recomendé que vieran esta película.
- Feminine and Masculine Nouns. Nouns in Spanish are either feminine or masculine. We use the article el for masculine nouns and la for feminine nouns. This is easy when it comes to people and living creatures.
- Noun Pluralization. Like English, making nouns plural in Spanish is straightforward—you simply need to change two things: change el to los or la to las , then change the noun to its plural form according to these rules
- Adjective Gender and Pluralization. Adjectives describe nouns, and in Spanish, they must match their nouns in both number and gender. If the noun is feminine and singular, then the adjective should be feminine and singular.
- Using Tú vs. Usted. Unlike English, Spanish conjugates verbs according to level of formality. There are two second-person pronouns: tú and usted . They both mean “you,” but tú is informal and usted is formal.
- Present. We use the present tense, also simple present, (presente) to speak about the present and the future. Example: hablo. aprendo. vivo.
- Progressive (estar + gerundio) The progressive tense with estar + gerundio describes an action that is already in progress at the moment of speaking, or is only taking place temporarily.
- Perfect. The perfect tense (pretérito perfecto) is used for completed actions that still have an influence on or a connection to the present. Example: he hablado.
- Imperfect. The imperfect tense (pretérito imperfecto) expresses a past action with no defined start or end as well as the habitual repetition of an event in the past.
Jul 26, 2023 · The future tense in Spanish expresses that an action or event will happen at some point in the future. For example: Mañana, iremos al cine. We will go to the movies tomorrow. Si puedo, llevaré a mi mamá a un concierto. If I can, I will take Mom to a concert. The Spanish conditional, on the other hand, refers to actions that depend on a ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Ellos/Ellas. viven. They live. As you can see, Spanish regular verbs consist of a root (cant-; corr-; viv-;) and an ending (-o; -as/-es; -a/-e; -amos/-emos/-imos; -áis/-éis/-ís; -an/-en). The root of the verb tells you what the word means. The ending tells you when and how the action is happening in the sentence.
