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NEG se CL puede can. 1SG pisar walk el the césped grass No se puede pisar el césped NEG CL can.1SG walk the grass "You cannot walk on the grass." Zagona also notes that, generally, oblique phrases do not allow for a double clitic, yet some verbs of motion are formed with double clitics: María María se CL fue went.away- 3SG María se fue María CL went.away-3SG "Maria went away ...
South Africa: The red section of the South African flag symbolizes violence and sacrifices that were made during the struggle for independence. Thailand: Red is the color for Sundays and is linked with Surya, the solar god. China: Red is worn during New Year and wedding celebrations, as well as being the main color for decorations for such events.
Queísmo is a phenomenon in Spanish grammar, the omission of a preposition, usually de, which, in Standard Spanish, would precede the conjunction (or complementizer) que. For example, " No me di cuenta que habías venido " ("I didn't realize you had come"), compared to the standard " No me di cuenta de que habías venido ".
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Spanish has three kinds of demonstrative, whose use typically depends on the distance (physical or metaphorical) between the speaker and the described entity, or sometimes depends on the proximity to the three grammatical persons.
Spanish, like most other Romance languages, is generally regarded to have two genders, but its ancestor, Latin, had three. The transition from three genders to two is mostly complete; however, vestiges of a neuter gender can still be seen. This was noted by Andrés Bello in his work on the grammar of Latin American Spanish. [7]
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I'm Australian, but my wife is Texan, so we spend two months a year living in her home state. Some significant differences between the two places initially came as a culture shock .