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The Diccionario Panhispánico de dudas ( DPD; English: Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts) is an elaborate work undertaken by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language with the goal of resolving questions related to the proper use of the Spanish language. Like other publications of the academy, such as ...
Historical and linguistic value. The Vocabulario de la lengua tagala by Pedro de San Buenaventura, O.F.M., printed in Pila, Laguna, in 1613, is an important work in Spanish-Filipino literature. Its rarity places it among the limited number of Filipino incunabula — works printed in the Philippines between the years 1593 and 1643—of which ...
Diccionario de la lengua española (Spanish Language Dictionary). The 1st edition was published in 1780, and the 23rd edition in 2014. [6] It can be consulted for free online as of October 2017 [7] and was published in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries to mark the tricentennial of the founding of the RAE.
During the Spanish–American War in 1898, Jorge Juan was in Cuba. She was anchored in Nipe Bay when, late on the morning of 21 July 1898, the United States Navy armed yacht USS Wasp and armed tug USS Leyden moved in toward Port Nipe in order to reconnoitre the bay. Wasp immediately sighted Jorge Juan at anchor some four miles up the bay.
Spanish language. Spanish is a grammatically inflected language, which means that many words are modified ("marked") in small ways, usually at the end, according to their changing functions. Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number (resulting in up to fifty conjugated forms per verb).
Juan Domingo Perón ( UK: / pɛˈrɒn /, US: / pɛˈroʊn, pəˈ -, peɪˈ -/ ⓘ, [3] [4] [5] Spanish: [ˈxwan doˈmiŋɡo peˈɾon] ⓘ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general and politician who served as the 35th President of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the 45th President from ...
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.
Some loanwords enter Spanish in their plural forms but are reanalyzed as singular nouns (e.g., the Italian plurals el confeti 'confetti', el espagueti 'spaghetti', and el ravioli 'ravioli'). These words then follow the typical morphological rules of Spanish, essentially double marking the plural (e.g., los confetis, los espaguetis, and los ...