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Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns, and, like many European languages, Spanish makes a T-V distinction in second person pronouns that has no equivalent in modern English. Object pronouns can be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis.
The pronouns yo, tú, vos, [1] él, nosotros, vosotros [2] and ellos are used to symbolise the three persons and two numbers. Note, however, that Spanish is a pro-drop language , and so it is the norm to omit subject pronouns when not needed for contrast or emphasis.
(nosotros/nosotras) habíamos + past participle (vosotros/vosotras) habíais + past participle (ellos/ellas/ustedes) habían + past participle; Uses. The past perfect is used to express the following: A past action that occurred prior to another past action: Yo había esperado tres horas cuando él llegó = "I had waited for three hours when he ...
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 ...
NEW YORK - Authorities are revealing more details surrounding the killing of a woman who was set on fire while sleeping on the New York City subway.. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, faces first- and second ...
Looking out the window from his office in Boulder, Sanders said he wanted to establish a legacy that would merit chiseling his face into the mountains there like the presidents at Mount Rushmore.
The dictionary form always has the vowel, not the diphthong, because, in the infinitive form, the stress is on the ending, not the stem. Exceptionally, the -u- of j u gar (u-ue -gar, -jugar) and the -i- of adqu i rir and inqu i rir (i-ie) also are subject to diphthongization ( juega , etc.; adquiere , etc.).
An elderly straphanger was randomly shoved onto subway tracks at the Herald Square station in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, according to police.