SOLO - only, alone, the only one?
Meanings of solo Adjective - alone Here it means "alone", "by yourself" or "lonely". It describes a noun, as it is an adjective, and this means that is going to agree with it in gender and number: Ex: »
What is the subject of a sentence?
When you learn a new language, specially when you get to a certain level, it's helpful to start to "analyse" the sentence and the words in it, to see what function each serves and how it works. The »
"Todos" and "todo"
I'm sure you've seen todos many times, sometimes with an article after it (Todos los días), sometimes without it (Todos vamos), sometimes in feminine form (todas) or without the -s at the end (todo). So, what's each version »
Tan and tanto
Let's talk about these two, shall we? Tan Tan is used before an adjective, that is, a quality (like sturdy) or a state (like broken). Ex: ¡Ese niño es tan fuerte! - that kid is so strong! Ex: »
Meanings of qué and que in Spanish
Qué - with accent mark Every time "qué" means "what", usually in a question but not always, it needs an accent mark. Also, if it's in between exclamation marks (¡!) What do/does ...? What am/is/are...? Questions that »
Using participle in Spanish
Comido, hablado, dicho, arreglado..., eaten, spoken, said, fixed... All of these are what we call "participle" or participio in Spanish, and they are the "done" form of the verb. A few months ago I posted an explanation the »
"If" in Spanish... how to use it
Sometimes people get confused with the combinations of "si" (if). Do you have to use subjunctive after or not? Well, these are the options: Reminder before we go into it: Sí with accent mark means "yes". Si without »
Lo, la or le? Direct and indirect pronouns
Sometimes it can be difficult to know if you should use lo/la or le when we talk about people in Spanish. You see it with both, but why? Isn't a person indirect object and therefore le? Well, »
About Spanish Christmas
Christmas Eve is right around the corner, so it's good time to learn a bit about how we live these holidays here in Spain, right? What we eat, what we do, when are the special days... I put »
Informal fillers and connectives
In this post I want to go through some informal expressions, fillers, structures and connectives. They are important because they are common, and therefore you'll hear them and need to understand them. All of the vocab in this »
Conversational phrases in Spanish
If you are hanging out around Spanish people, your Spanish family in law is over for the weekend or you want your Spanish to sound very native, these are great phrases to achieve that. If you're feeling adventurous »
The, a, some: Articles in Spanish
You can't avoid these tiny words! They go before most nouns, that is words that express things, places, people or concepts. So if you can't fight them... learn them! Defined articles- THE We use these when we'd say »