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Verbs/ verbos
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Verbs describe (i) an action, (ii) a state or (iii) an occurrence:-
1.As an action word, it is something that you do, like walk or play or eat. 2.As a state of being: "My name is John. I am 20 years old. I am Caucasian and my girlfriend looks gorgeous! And she has a heart of gold!" 3.As an occurrence/happening: "The snow glistened on the trees tops." |
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Nouns/ sustantivo
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A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
Los sustantivos sirven para nombrar personas, animales, cosas; emociones, sentimientos; virtudes, defectos. Todo aquello a lo que le damos ... |
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Conjugate/ Conjugar
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Verb:
Give the different forms of (a verb in an inflected language) as they vary according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person. |
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Regular verbs
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A regular verb is a verb that always maintains the same pattern of conjugation:
Accept - Accepted Avoid - Avoided Complete - Completed Crush - Crushed Hate - Hated etc. |
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Irregular verbs
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An irregular verb is a verb that has a different way of being conjugated, and that does not follow the pattern of conjugation:
Awake - Awoke Become - Became Bring - Brought Choose - Chose Drink - Drank Fly - Flew etc. |
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Proper nouns
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Proper nouns are the name of a person, place, thing, or a title (They must be capitalized); for example: . Abraham
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Pronouns
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pronouns are words that take place of a noun like; he ,she ,me ,it ,and they.
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Feminine
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feminine A gender. Not necessarily female! Rules will tell you what's "feminine."
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Plural
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plural More than 1.
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Adjective
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adjective A word that describes something or someone; a descriptive term. The thing to remember before you can use these is whether "the entity being regarded/described" is m or f. Another good thing to look at right off the bat is that they come AFTER the nouns, ... and you know what you're describing before you describe it ...
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Gender
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gender A word's form, not what it represents as "man" or "woman" - but rather how the word is dealt with. There are only 2 genders in Spanish: masculine and feminine. Has nothing to do with boys & girls ...
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Present
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present Now. Nowadays. Current. On-going. Not completed. Not over with. Not finished.
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Singular
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singular Just 1. No more, ... sometimes less.
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Infinitive
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infinitive The plain vanilla, unconjugated form of a verb, ... in English: the "to" form. Spanish has 3 kinds of verbs: AR, ER, & IR.
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Tense
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tense The name of different sets of endings that convey who's doing what and when the verbs are going on. They establish the timeframe of the activity: past - present - future, etc.
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Stem
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stem The part of the word that really carries the weight of it's "meaning" or "implied reference."
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