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Spanish by Choice/SpanishPod newbie lesson A0016/Print version - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks; Date and time of digitizing: 19:54, 25 January 2009: Software used: Firefox: File change date and time: 19:54, 25 January 2009: Conversion program: Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows) Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter ...
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For other irregular verbs and their common patterns, see the article on Spanish irregular verbs. The tables include only the "simple" tenses (that is, those formed with a single word), and not the "compound" tenses (those formed with an auxiliary verb plus a non-finite form of the main verb), such as the progressive, perfect, and passive voice.
Spanish by Choice/SpanishPod lessons/Print version - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks; Date and time of digitizing: 00:17, 31 January 2009: Software used: Firefox: File change date and time: 00:17, 31 January 2009: Conversion program: Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows) Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Version of ...
As is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European languages, Spanish verbs undergo inflection according to the following categories: Tense: past, present, or future; Number: singular or plural; Person: first, second or third
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 ...
A verb in this mood is always distinguishable from its indicative counterpart by their different conjugation. The Spanish subjunctive mood descended from Latin, but is morphologically far simpler, having lost many of Latin's forms. Some of the subjunctive forms do not exist in Latin, such as the future, whose usage in modern-day Spanish ...
Answering a "yes or no" question with single words meaning yes or no is by no means universal. About half the world's languages typically employ an echo response: repeating the verb in the question in an affirmative or a negative form. Some of these also have optional words for yes and no, like Hungarian, Russian, and Portuguese.