Grammar Reminders Flashcards
Ending in OR, AL, BLE are identical
Ending in IC is ICO
Ending in ENT is ENTE
ANT is ANTE
Ending with ous becomes oso
Ending in ist becomes ista
Ending in tion becomes cion
Lo is him it or that
Se is herself, eachother, or making something less personal more passive
Spanish nouns that end in acion can become verbs by removing the acion and adding verb endings
Preparacion becomes prepare
Past tense verb endings:
I is E
You is O
Words ending in Ty become dad
Capacity > capacidad
You don’t say “I had coffee” rather “I took coffee” same goes for all food and drink
Tome is the verb
Tome cafe
You are never at a place. Only in.
Ending in ry becomes rio
Imaginary > imaginario
Ending in em or am to ema or ama
Poem > poema
Use a when a person follows a verb
Invite a mi mama
Al is a contraction of a and el
Visite al doctor not visite a el doctor
E is for me.
O is for others
In past tense
Ending in ce becomes cia
Experience > experienca
Ending in cy becomes cia
Agency > agencia
Words staring with sp have an e at the beginning
Special > especial
Donde and como take esta. The rest take es
To form the infinitive of any verb remove the e from the past tense and add ar
Hable > hablar
Ending in Ive becomes ivo
Active > activo
Por is for communications and time
Para is for people and occasions
In English you add ly to the end of some adjectives to create adverbs.
Constant > constantly
In Spanish you add mente
Constante > constantemente
If you want to create an adverb in Spanish and it ends in O replace with A and add mente
Completo > completamente
Past tense for er and ir ending verbs is removing them and add I for single person and IO for everyone else
Vender > vendí
Vendió
If a noun ends in a verb add s to form the plural
If it ends in a consonant add es
Adjectives usually follow nouns
The White House is el casa Blanca
O is masculine. A is feminine
Ending in y becomes ia
Energy > energia
Pluralize verbs ending in ar with Amos for we and Aron for anybody else
Trabajé
Trabajo
Trabajamos
Trabajaron
Plural endings for er and ir verbs are imos and ieron
Words that end in ct become Spanish by adding an o
Product > producto
Present tense verbs ending in ar, er and ir first person remove and put o, third person a
Hablo
Habla
Creo isn’t just believe but also think
Past participle AR verbs remove the ar and add ado
Er and ir verbs remove and add ido
Prepar becomes preparado
Viajar becomes viajado
“He” means I have but you can only use it with other verbs.
He preparado is I have prepared
To add “ing” in English you add ando or iendo
Escribir > escribiendo
Está is for things
Esto is for concepts
Add ito to the end of any noun to make it a small thing
Tú quieres jugito
Do you want a little juice
Anytime a verb can take the word to or for after you have to put le or la in front of it
I wrote to her
Le escribió
No para de llover
It does t stop raining
