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un hombre = "a man" unos hombres = "some men" una mujer = "a woman" unas mujeres = "some women" Near-synonyms of unos include unos cuantos, algunos and unos pocos. The same rules that apply to feminine el apply to una and un: un ala = "a wing" una árabe = "a female Arab" una alta montaña = "a high mountain"
When que is used as the object of a preposition, the definite article is added to it, and the resulting form (el que) inflects for number and gender, resulting in the forms el que, la que, los que, las que and the neuter lo que. Unlike in English, the preposition must go right before the relative pronoun "which" or "whom":
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 ...
Prepositions in the Spanish language, like those in other languages, are a set of connecting words (such as con, de or para) that serve to indicate a relationship between a content word (noun, verb, or adjective) and a following noun phrase (or noun, or pronoun), which is known as the object of the preposition.
Un Año Más" (transl. "One More Year" ) is a ballad composed by Hernán Gallardo Pavez [ es ] . It was recorded as a Chilean cumbia song in 1977 by the Coquimbo group Los Vikings 5 [ es ] , then later in the same genre by Sonora Palacios (in 1978) and La Sonora de Tommy Rey [ es ] (in 1992).
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.
Ortografía de la lengua española (Spanish Language Orthography). The 1st edition was published in 1741 and the latest edition in 2010. The edition of 1999 was the first spelling book to cover the whole Hispanic world, replacing the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortografía (New Rules for Prosody and Spelling) of 1959. [citation needed]
Uno más uno es igual a dos. (Spanish) Um mais um é igual a dois. (Portuguese) 'One plus one equals two.' Dos cabezas piensan mejor que una. (Spanish) Duas cabeças pensam melhor que uma. (Portuguese) 'Two heads think better than one.' Tengo dos hermanos y dos hermanas. (Spanish) Tenho dois irmãos e duas irmãs. (Portuguese) 'I have two ...