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The sentence "Michael no cree que Panamá sea un país hispanohablante" ("Michael does not believe that Panama is a Spanish-speaking country") only presents Michael's opinion of Panama and the speaker is being neutral of it, while "Michael no cree que Panamá es un país hispanohablante" (same meaning as above) presents an intervention of the ...
Que se cierren las puertas. = "Let the doors be closed.", "Have the doors closed." With a verb that expresses wishing, the above sentences become plain subjunctive instead of direct commands: Deseo que venga el gerente. = "I wish for the manager to come." Quiero que se cierren las puertas. = "I want the doors (to be) closed."
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":
How is my Spanish: Spanish conjugation charts Spanish conjugation chart. Chart to conjugate in 7 different Spanish tenses. SpanishBoat: Verb conjugation worksheets in all Spanish tenses Printable and online exercises for teachers and students... Espagram: verb conjugator Spanish verb conjugator. Contains about a million verb forms.
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.
Al hombre le dimos un regalo but never Al hombre dimos un regalo = "We gave the man a gift" Al perro le dijo que se siente but never Al perro dijo que se siente = "He/She/You told the dog to sit" With indirect objects that come after the verb, however, clitic doubling is usually optional, though generally preferred in spoken language:
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]
Felipe González Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe ɣonˈθaleθ ˈmaɾkeθ]; born 5 March 1942) is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically-elected Prime Minister of Spain.