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Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language , it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [ 3 ]
Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
[5] [6] For this class of nouns, the masculine and feminine often take different forms. By convention, the masculine form is treated as the lemma (that is, the form listed in dictionaries) and the feminine form as the marked form. [7] For nouns of this class with the masculine form ending in -o, the feminine form typically replaces the -o with -a.
The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
The silent letter h is used in Spanish word-initially and word-medially (hombre, prohibir), but in Portuguese it is used only word-initially (homem but proibir). Word-final h is used in both languages in interjections (ah, oh); in Spanish it is used also in the loanword sah (which corresponds to Portuguese xá).
Unlike today's pronunciation of this name, in Old Spanish the initial J was a voiced postalveolar fricative (as the sound "je" in French), and the middle s stood for a voiced apicoalveolar fricative /z̺/ (as in the Castilian pronunciation of the word mismo).
Spanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are generally postpositive , [ 1 ] and they agree in both gender and number with the noun they modify. Inflection and usage
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.').