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Similarly, the participle agrees with the subject when it is used with ser to form the "true" passive voice (e.g. La carta fue escrita ayer 'The letter was written [got written] yesterday.'), and also when it is used with estar to form a "passive of result", or stative passive (as in La carta ya está escrita 'The letter is already written.').
These include the grammatical custom (inherited from Latin) of using a grammatically masculine plural for a group containing at least one male; the use of the masculine definite article for infinitives (e.g. el amar, not la amar); and the permissibility of using Spanish male pronouns for female referents but not vice versa (e.g. el que includes ...
(Ellos) son: "They are"; used for a group of people or things that includes at least one person or thing of masculine (grammatical) gender. (Ellas) son: "They are"; used for a group of people or things that are all of feminine (grammatical) gender.
The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.
The construction "Whether ... or" is formed by the subjunctive; the same verb of this mood occurs twice in a sentence: "tengas razón o no la tengas." ("whether you are right or wrong.") [39] Words ending in -quiera ("-ever"), such as cualquiera ("whatever/whichever") and quienquiera ("whoever"), require the subjunctive; dondequiera ("wherever ...
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(father of): A man named like his son may add the lower-case suffix p. (denoting padre, father) to his surname. An example of this is José Luis Lorena, p., to distinguish him from his son José Luis Lorena; the English analogue is "Sr." (senior). h. (son of): A man named like his father may append the lower-case suffix h.
Tom Hanks' son Chet has spoken. Chet, who goes by the rapper alias Chet Haze, stirred up controversy over his use of the n-word in recent social media postings. It first came to light when Haze ...