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Conversational Spanish - Intermediate

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Ordinal Numbers

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Ordinal Numbers

1st	Primero	40th	Cuadragésimo
2nd	Segundo	50th	Quincuagésimo
3rd	Tercero	60th	Sexagésimo
4th	Cuarto	70th	Septuagésimo
5th	Quinto	80th	Octogésimo
6th	Sexto	90th	Nonagésimo
7th	Séptimo (Sétimo)	100th	Centésimo
8th	Octavo	200th	Ducentésimo
9th	Noveno (Nono)	300th	Tricentésimo
10th	Décimo	400th	Cuadrigentésimo

"Primero," "tercero," and "Postrero" drop the O before a masculine noun singular as:

El primer pedido: The first order.
El tercer lote: The third lot.

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Vocabulary

cero - zero

Months and Days - Meses y Días

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Days of the Week

la semana - the week
el lunes - Monday
el martes - Tuesday
el miércoles - Wednesday
el jueves - Thursday
el viernes - Friday

Travel Related

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Spanish Conversations - Building Contractors

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Climb the ladder.

Imperative Mood - Modo Imperativo

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Spanish Imperative Mood

The imperative mood expresses direct commands, requests, and prohibitions.

In many circumstances, using the imperative mood may sound blunt or even rude, so it is often used with care.

The imperative mood expresses direct commands, requests, and prohibitions. In many circumstances, using the imperative mood may sound blunt or even rude, so it is often used with care.

Direct Commands in Spanish (Imperatives)

Let's start our discussion of commands, which are sometimes called "imperatives",y by dividing them into two groups.

We know that when we speak with someone in Spanish, we have to decide which form of "you" to use. When we know someone well enough to call him/her by the FIRST NAME, we use the word "tú". If we feel that it is proper to use a title and the last name (for example: Mr. García, Mrs. Fernández, Senator González, President Fujimori), out of respect for the persons age or social position, we use the word "usted".

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Vocabulary

jabón - soap

Pluperfect (Past Perfect Subjunctive) - Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo

Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:01 +0000

Spanish Pluperfect (Past Perfect Subjunctive)

To form the "pretérito pluscuamperfecto" (past perfect) of the subjunctive mood, we need to use the auxiliary verb "haber" (have) in its "pretérito imperfecto" (past simple) of the subjunctive mood and the past participle of another verb.

First, to form the past participle of the regular verbs in Spanish, we need to take the verb as we find it in the dictionary and remove the last two letters.

Then, if the verb ends in:

-ar we will add the ending -ado
-er or -ir we will add the ending -ido

haber


			
				 
				haber
				 
			
			
				yo
				 hubiera
				(that I might have)
			
			
				tú
				 hubieras
				(that you might have)
			
			
				Ud./él/ella
				 hubiera
				(that you might have)
			
			
				nosotros (as)
				 hubiéramos
				(that we might have)
			
			
				vosotros (as)
				 hubierais
				(that you might have)
			
			
				Uds./ellos/ellas
				 hubieran
				(that they might have)

Note: yo = I, tú = you (informal), usted (Ud.) = you (formal),
él = he, ella = she, nosotros = we (males), nosotras = we
(females), vosotros = you guys (informal, males), vosotras = 
you guys (informal, females),  ellos = they (males), ellas = 
they (females), ustedes (Uds.) = you all (formal)

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Vocabulary

collar de perro - dog collar

Conditional - Potencial Simple (Modo Potencial)

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Spanish Conditional

The conditional is used in a variety of situations:

To communicate a condition based on something known or expressed.

Iríamos a Cancún, pero no tenemos dinero.
We would go to Cancun, but we don't have any money.

To communicate a future condition based on a past occurance.

El dijo que iría a matarnos.
He said he would kill us.

To communicate doubt in the present about something the occurred in the past.

Yo no se por qué estaría tan feliz.
I don't know why he was so happy.

To communicate courtesy.

¿Te gustaría una taza de té?
Would you like a cup of tea?
¿Me podría decir donde puedo comprar la pelicula Spiderman?
Would you be able to tell me where I can buy the Spiderman movie?
¿Seria tan amable de decirme donde puedo comprar un cuenco?
Would you be so kind to tell me where I can buy a bell?

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Vocabulary

escorpión - scorpion

Imperfect (Past Subjunctive) - Imperfecto de Subjuntivo

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Spanish Imperfect (Past Subjunctive)

The imperfect subjunctive is formed by taking the third person plural of the preterite minus -on.

hablaron      hablar-
comieron      comier-
vivieron      vivier-

To this stem you add the following endings:
-a, -as, -a, -amos, -ais, -an

One of the most common uses of the imperfect subjunctive is in a si clause. In such a clause it has a hypothetical meaning.

Si yo fuera el presidente... 
If I were the president...
Si tuviera mucho dinero... 
If I had a lot of money...
Si hablara cinco idiomas... 
If I spoke five languages...

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Vocabulary

rico - rich

Present Subjunctive - Presente de Subjuntivo

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:45:18 +0000

Spanish Present Subjunctive

One of the uses of the subjunctive mood is to persuade someone to do something.

For example, if you call a friend and discover that he is not at home, you might ask whoever answered the phone to leave your friend a message.

In Spanish, such a sentence requires use of the subjunctive mood.

For example:

Dile que me devuelva mi libro mañana. 
Tell him to return my book to me tomorrow.
Sí señor, dígale por favor que lleve mi disco 
de los jaguares a la escuela mañana. 
Yes sir, please tell him to bring my Jaguars 
CD to school tomorrow.

Notice that in each example the speaker is asking someone to do something. If the speaker were simply giving information then the subjunctive mood would not be used.

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Vocabulary

beso - kiss

Conjunctions - Las Conjunciones

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Spanish Conjunctions

In order to speak Spanish more fluidly you should be able to employ some key expressions that will help you connect your ideas. Some common phrases that are used to express a contrast between one idea and another include:

Sin Embargo
No obstante
A pesar de (que)
De todos modos
Aunque

Although there usually isn't a single word-for-word translation of these terms, they do tend to correspond to specific words in English.

Sin embargo - is used like "however," or "nevertheless."

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Vocabulary

imán - magnet

Double Object Pronouns - Pronombres de Doble Objeto

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:18:47 +0000

Spanish Double Object Pronouns

We have looked at both Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns and learned that we place them either directly before a conjugated verb or attach them to an infinitive, a gerund or a command.

But what happens when we have both direct and indirect object pronouns in one sentence?

We have already studied the two kinds of object pronouns. They are the "direct" object pronoun and the "indirect" object pronoun. If you don't remember these well, it would be a good idea for you to review them before beginning this lesson.

To start, let's review what we mean by the "direct" object. Look at the following sentence and decide what word is the "direct" object.

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Vocabulary

ruta - route

Object Pronouns - Pronombres de Objeto Directo y Objeto Indirecto

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Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns

Pronouns are words that we use to replace nouns in sentences. The reason that we use them is to avoid unnecessary repetition. Take a look at the following conversation.

"Do you have the book?"
"No, I don't have the book."
"Do you know if Mary has the book?"
"No, I don't know if Mary has the book."

Doesn't that sound odd to you? The reason that it sounds so strange is that we aren't used to so much repetition in our sentences. In order to avoid that, we frequently use pronouns to replace nouns once we have made it clear what we are talking about.

Instead of repeating "the book" so many times, we would probably replace the phrase with the word "it". Read the following lines and see if it sounds better to you.

"Do you have the book?"
"No, I don't have it."

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Vocabulary

velero - sailboat

Indirect Object - Objeto Indirecto

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Spanish Indirect Object

An indirect object precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done and who is receiving the direct object.

There must be a direct object to have an indirect object. Indirect objects are usually found with verbs of giving or communicating like give, bring, tell, show, take, or offer.

An indirect object is always a noun or pronoun which is not part of a prepositional phrase.

Example:

She gave me the report.
- Who received the report? me
- What is the indirect object? - me

"me" is the indirect object because it tells
us who the report was given to.

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Vocabulary

tejer - to weave

123TeachMe - Travel Spanish

machote para tabla(travel),con xxx

Conversational Spanish - Intermediate

Ordinal Numbers

Months and Days - Meses y Días

Travel Related

Spanish Conversations - Building Contractors

Imperative Mood - Modo Imperativo

Pluperfect (Past Perfect Subjunctive) - Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo

Conditional - Potencial Simple (Modo Potencial)

Imperfect (Past Subjunctive) - Imperfecto de Subjuntivo

Present Subjunctive - Presente de Subjuntivo

Conjunctions - Las Conjunciones

Double Object Pronouns - Pronombres de Doble Objeto

Object Pronouns - Pronombres de Objeto Directo y Objeto Indirecto

Indirect Object - Objeto Indirecto