Adjectives / adjetivos
In Spanish, words agree in number and gender: singular / plural, and masculine / feminine: Agreement 1 SSE
Combine nouns and adjectives, provide the correct form and place the two in the correct order: Agreement 2 SSE
Now do the same as in the previous exercise, but this time you are asked to work from English prompts: Agreement 3 SSE
Make nominal groups and short sentences with a number of items taken from a letter of complaint written by a classmate: Agreement 4 SSE
Describe an object, and distinguish between ser and estar + adjetives: Este edificio es ... ¿Ser o estar? SSE
Learn to describe your own and other people's nationality: Nacionalidades SSE
Learn to describe yourself in Spanish: Soy ... SSE
Adjective placement: the case of primero, bueno and nuevo. Use this ad to check your knowledge on adjective placement: before or after the noun? SSE
Check your skills and see how many you now know: Te presento a mis amigos SSE
Adjectives and agreement in person and number: Sierra Leona. Los soldados de la fuerza africana imponen a tiros su ley en la capital de Sierra Leona [concordancia] C&S Complete and Send
Basic information about the making and use of adverbs. Try to assimilate the items of this exercise completamente SSE
Identify the adverbs completing what comes after the first four letters: search your dictionary, select an adverb worth remembering and memorize a stable lexical combination with that adverb like: evidentemente - evidentemente falso, completamente - completamente de acuerdo C&S Complete & Send
Learn to describe yourself in Spanish and use a few adverbs in order to qualify other words: Soy ....
In Spanish, words agree in number and gender, in singular vs plural, and in masculine vs feminine:
Agreement 0 SSE
First check how well you do without any training: Agreement 1 SSE
Now try inserting items in a sentence: Agreement 2 C&S: Complete and Send
This one is self-scoring: Agreement 3 SSE
Slightly more complicated: Agreement 4 SSE
Now show yourself that you can do all of the above: Agreement 5 SSE
Next is a series of items based on quotes from student work. Show us that you can do better than this:
You know better than this/1 SSE
You know better than this/2 SSE
Here's som more: Zaragoza SSE
Agreement also applies to possessive pronouns: Mine or thine? Possessive pronouns SSE
Agreement is vitally important when you talk about yourself, make adjectives agree with m/f, sg/pl: Soy ... SSE
Retsore items in a text. Fill in the proper adjective forms in this text about war in Sierra Leona. Los soldados de la fuerza africana imponen a tiros su ley en la capital de Sierra Leona [concordancias, formas de verbos para contar acciones y circumstancias] C&S: Complete and Send
In Spanish, words agree in number and gender: singular / plural, and masculine / feminine. Copy Spanish words and add the appropriate article: Articles and gender - 1 SSE
In Spanish, words agree in number and gender: singular / plural, and masculine / feminine. Now supply the correct Spanish equivalent of the same English words as above and add the appropriate article: Articles and gender - 2 SSE
What is a direct object? (1): Dressed to steal (1) SSE
What is a direct object? (2): Dressed to steal (2) SSE
Whenever the direct object is a person, in Spanish you need to use a before that direct object: Los obispos españoles solicitarán al Papa que canonice a Isabel la Católica. (1)La comunidad judía lamenta que la Iglesia ponga como modelo a una 'intransigente'. Reading comprehension and pory para C&S Complete and Send
Whenever the direct object is a person, in Spanish you need to use a before that direct object: Los obispos españoles solicitarán al Papa que canonice a Isabel la Católica. (2)
La comunidad judía lamenta que la Iglesia ponga como modelo a una 'intransigente'. Por y para SSE
Personal pronouns used in direct and indirect object position. Learn the forms that you need: Lo, los, la, las Uso de los pronombres personales usados como complemento directo SSE
Personal pronouns used after prepositions. Learn to use the forms for this case: Pronombres personales detrás de preposiciones: a + mí, ti. él/ella,
usted, nosotros, vosotros, ellos, ellas, ustedes SSE
Big, bigger, biggest: Grande, más grande, mucho más grande, el más grande etc SSE
It is better if you know how to actually do it without the tables, but whenever you are lost, this might help: Conjugar sin problemas: FLEXVER
Or else, this one: Conjugar sin problemas: VERBIX
Test yourself with this one: Conjuguemos (... a self-grading, self-timed conjugating program for Spanish students and classrooms of all
Creer que vs no creer que: indicativo or subjuntivo in the direct object clause
Creo que - no creo que SSE
This is este, that is ese [remember where the t comes in], but 'that' is often not expressed in English ('the man I love' vs 'the man that I love', but needs to be expressed in Spanish. Brush up your awareness of precisely That SSE
Which is the properest day to work / study / sing? El peor día de la semana SSE
Parentesco: padres, abuelos, tíos, nietos, primos etc. SSE
Silvia y familia: padres, abuelos, tíos, nietos, primos etc. SSE
In Spanish you use the present tense to talk about the future: Planes para el 'break' SSE
El tiempo: los boletines meteorológicos suelen usar el futuro para explicar el tiempo que hará al día siguiente. Practica con el boletín del 13 de marzo de 2007 SSE
Willem-Alexander and Máxima engaged. Practice for an eye-witness report
Grammatical categories and grammar terms reviewed with the help of El balneario: the first paragraphs of a short narration by Carmen Martín Gaite SSE
Me gusta Me gusta ... SSE
Fine, I like this, etc. Fine SSE
Basic patterns of word order, combined with verbs of liking: Kasia and Nika SSE
I like it = it pleases me, simple to forget but so hard to remember: I don't like this SSE
I like this girl in my class ... Me gusta mi compañera de clase
When you comment on something that just happened, you use the perfect tense: Me ha/n gustado ... 1 SSE
Same: Me ha/n gustado ... 2 SSE
Same: Me ha/n gustado ... 1 C&S Complete and Send
More: Me ha/n gustado ... 2 C&S Complete and Send
Es la una, y son las dos, and much more in: It's about time SSE
The imperativo is used for giving orders, suggestions, or for being helpful like in giving directions as to get somewhere. Study with this text quote taken from a famous short novel, El Balneario
Use the instructions of a video game for mastering the imperativo: ¡Torpedo! SSE
I used to do this, but i don't any more. Use the imperfecto: Some time ago I used to like this, but I don't anymore SSE
I used to live there, but I don't live there any more: Vivía, y otras formas del Imperfecto SSE
An order given in the main part of the clause makes a subjuntivo obligatory in the dependent clause, AND you need to respect the past: Te dije que ...
Read a text about illegal requirements in shops and practical solutions to getting the job done and still have babies. And analyse the imperfectos de subjuntivo forms: Muestre su bolso y: Embarazadas sí, pero por turnos: imperfectos de subjuntivo y otras lindezas. C&S Complete and Send
Also see these exercises
Indefinido, definido, pretérito indefinido, pretérito definido, by any name: Dijo, y otras formas del pretérido indefinido/definido SSE
Check you conjugation skills for definido forms: Definitely indefinidos SSE
Infinitivo o forma conjugada?
¿Infinitivo o forma conjugada? Can I ask you something? - *¿Puedo te pregunto algo? o: ¿Puedo preguntarte algo? C&S Complete and Send
What I don't understand - lo que no entiendo ...Lo que no entiendo es ... SSE
I don't know what I want ...No sé lo que quiero SSE
Muy is not the same as mucho, nor are these two the same as más: M-words SSE
Learn about how to make requires subjuntivo: You make me feel so young and write lyrics in Spanish, or almost
Learn how words are related: Cómo se hacen las palabras SSE
No real cause for alarm: study word formation patterns: La ultraderecha holandesa se desintegra SSE
What about no? (or when to say no in Spanish) ¿Dónde se coloca la negación? SSE
Numbers: simple: Uno - cuarenta. Los numerales de 1 hasta 40 SSE
Numbers: ¿simple? Outnumbered: Numbers SSE
Numbers and dates: Tres de mayo: Numbers SSE
Passive voice used in written reports and essays: Ser + participio SSE
How to tell a story in the past tense, in English and in Spanish: Jane and Jim, how they met and what happened next (In English and Spanish) SSE
The auxiliary to make perfect tenses: Haber
Are we done? ¿Hemos acabado ya? / Sí, hemos acabado / ¡Uf, hemos acabado! SSE
Let me tell you what happened on my way to the station: narrating actions that happened today: No nos hemos visto hoy pero si te cuento lo que ha pasado ... SSE
Forms of the perfect: Perfect! SSE
Was everything all right? Use the perfecto¿Les ha gustado? SSE
Why haven't you done ...? ¿Por qué no ...? Reproches SSE
What I liked ... (about my trip to Madrid) Me ha/n gustado ... 1 SSE
What I liked ... (about my trip to Madrid) Me ha/n gustado ... 2 SSE
What I liked ... (about my trip to Madrid) Me ha/n gustado ... 1 C&S Complete and Send
What I liked ... (about my trip to Madrid) Me ha/n gustado ... 2 C&S Complete and Send
Read the opening lines of a story about The man with the pidgeons: El hombre de las palomas and study the use of the past tense in this example SSE
Read El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, the opening paragraphs of a famous novel by Gabriel García Márquez, and a review of choices between imperfecto and definido SSE
Identify the forms, but first read: 87 horas lejos de casa (1) El texto con preguntas SSE
Identify the forms: which is which? 87 horas lejos de casa (2) Clasifica las formas: imperfecto o indefinido? SSE
[290, maybe even 190, just give this one a try:] Madrid Public Bus Driver ... SSE
Read this report and provide the correct forms: Atropello mortal en Granada
HP SSE
Same type of story: Mueren arrolladas ... SSE
Weird story: Madrid Public Bus Driver ... SSE
Words taken from the same weird story: Madrid Public Bus Driver ...(2) SSE
More on bus ride. Complete an unusual dialog: Usted se baja ya SSE
Chantal Sébire, read and fill in the gaps: Chantal SSE
Order the sentences with past tenses in order to make a story: Ordena las oraciones SSE
About rules and forms and past tenses: Un millón por dos jilgueros C&S Complete and Send
Amalia Avia is being interviewed about her life and career: Amalia Avia-1 Lee el texto R
Now provide the imperfecto-forms: Amalia Avia-2 Pon las formas del imperfecto SSE
Next, fill in the definido-forms: Amalia Avia-3 Pon las formas del pretérito indefinido SSE
And lastly: choose! Amalia Avia-4 Pon imperfectos e indefinidos SSE
Delft has been the scenery of a number of burials of the Dutch Royal Family. Raed about the financial consequences: Demasiados gastos regios para Delft Pon las formas correctas SSE
Queen Juliana was an exceptional person. Read this obituary: Juliana, una reina poco convencional El País, 22 de marzo de 2004. SSE
March, 8 (el 11-M) is the Spanish equivalent of 9-11 for the US and the world. Read about arrests: Detenidos tres marroquíes y dos indios por supuesto apoyo a los autores de la matanza El País, 22 de marzo de 2004. SSE
Spanish history in a language exercise, 1: Historia de España (01) SSE
Spanish history in a language exercise, 2: Historia de España (02) SSE
Check your skills on past tenses: ¿Imperfecto o indefinido? SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: A newspaper report on a crime (1): Nuevo caso de ...(1) SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: A newspaper report on a crime (2): Nuevo caso de ...(2) SSE
Choose the correct forms: Defínete SSE
Practica identificando las formas del imperfecto y del indefinido en un fragmento de un cuento corto de Gabriel García Márquez El rastro de tu sangre. SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Atraco a un ministro francés SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Atraco a un ministro francés (preparación) SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Nadie sabe dónde están los niños del 'barco de la vergüenza' SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Candidatura o matrimonio SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Dos cabezas SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Dos cabezas - preparación SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Problemas con un vecino transexual SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: Cursillo exclusivo para el príncipe SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: La Zarina volverá a Rusia SSE
Choose the forms of perfecto, definido or imperfecto: From the 'People' pages: David Zamorano SSE
Work with a story in which definido and imperfecto alternate: ¡Ajá! - ¿Ah, sí? SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Setenta puñaladas: Setenta puñaladas. Rebajada la pena a un hombre que apuñaló a una mujer porque "no se ensañó" [morfología verbal para narrar acciones del pasado) C&S Complete and Send
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Mata Hari: El último secreto de Mata-Hari [narración de sucesos del pasado] C&S Complete and Send
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Dog bites boy: Perro. Un perro de ataque mata a un niño de cuatro años en Mallorca [narrar sucesos del pasado] C&S Complete and Send
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Arrests: Detenidos ... SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: The worst part: La papeleta más difícil SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Earthquake in Turkey: Hallan vivo a ... SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Aspectos, some basic issues about aspect in Spanish: Elige el aspecto adecuado (pasados). C&S Complete and Send
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Las Torres Gemelas: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: El atentado contra el WTC. SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Las Torres Gemelas: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: El atentado contra el WTC. C&S Complete and Send
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Vacaciones: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: El semestre pasado. SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Vacaciones: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: El semestre pasado. SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Vacaciones: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: Daphne's Tale (1). SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Vacaciones: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: Daphne's Tale (2). SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: Tour de France: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: Tour de France SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: My blue skirt: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: Mi falda azul, y mi primer recuerdo de infancia SSE
Fill in the forms of definido or imperfecto: When I went out to buy milk: Personal stories by fellow students, converted into practice sessions: Cuando salí a comprar ... SSE
Complete with lo/la/los/las: lo, la, los, or las (1) SSE
Same, but with more explanations: lo, la, los, or las (2) SSE
Place the pronouns in the proper order and make proper sentences Ordena C & S Complete and Send
Curandera-0: conectores y preposiciones, por y para SSE
¿Por o para? SSE
'For' vs 'because of': Los obispos españoles solicitarán al Papa que canonice a Isabel la Católica. (1)La comunidad judía lamenta que la Iglesia ponga como modelo a una 'intransigente'. Reading comprehension and pory para C&S Complete and Send
'For' vs 'because of': Los obispos españoles solicitarán al Papa que canonice a Isabel la Católica. (2)
La comunidad judía lamenta que la Iglesia ponga como modelo a una 'intransigente'. Por y para SSE
Ni por ni para: Ni por ni para SSE
Mine and thine: Possessive pronouns SSE
GBE, cap 7 Gramática Básica del Español, 7-1
Me duele la cabeza - I have a headache. Me pongo el sombrero - I put on my hat Personal pronouns and articles to indicate personal possessions and parts of the body SSE
Michael Jackson es cantante / es un cantante americano Michael Jackson: ¿cantante / un cantante etc.? SSE
Similar: Soy ... (adjetivos y más) SSE
Algo a menudo se queja de - 'something he often complains about'. Learn how to find a place for those loose ends and learn to make sentences like: algo de que a menudo se queja SSE
The world [-] we live in, in English you do not need [that] but in Spanish you must use a relative pronoun; furthermore you cannot place words like 'in' at the end of the sentence: El mundo en el que vivimos SSE
DE or no DE: ¿Es difícil DE entrar en calor, o: ¿Es difícil [ø/NADA] entrar en calor? SSE
DE or no DE: Gas Natural, ¿la solución para el frío que pasó Julika en Sevilla? Read
DE or no DE: A ver si ahora entras en calor. Practica con los anuncios sobre el Gas Natural SSE
A + direct object Recordar SSE
Spot the forms of the subjuntivo: Identifica los subjuntivos C&S Complete and Send
When you will love me ... when+action in the future, requires subjuntivo: Cuando me quieras Cuando+ presente de subjuntivo: acciones futuras SSE
When he comes back, tell him ... When you will love me ...: when+action in the future, requires subjuntivo: When he comes back, tell him ...: Subjuntivo in sentence part with cuando + action in the future, as opposed to cuando + habitual action = cuando + present tense form SSE
When he will have cooled down a bit ... When you will love me ...: when+action in the future, requires subjuntivo: Cuando esté más tranquilo ... Subjuntivo in sentence part with cuando + action in the future SSE
When pidgeons start smoking ... When you will love me ...: when+action in the future, requires subjuntivo: When pidgeons start smoking ... SSE
I want you to tell me the truth ... expressing a wish that somebody else must fulfill, requires subjuntivo; learn how: Quiero que me digas la verdad SSE
I did it my way. Now you do it your way! How to write the lyrics to a song in Spanish in 30 questions SSE
What .... ! What suffering! SSE
¿Cuál es tu profesión? vs ¿Qué profesión tienes? ¿Qué o cuál? SSE
This is este, that is ese [remember where the t comes in], but 'that' is often not expressed in English ('the man I love' vs 'the man that I love', but needs to be expressed in Spanish. Brush up your awareness of precisely That SSE
Relative phrases with prepositions - Frases relativas con preposición (GBE página 143)
Haz una frase de dos: Mi ciudad ... SSE
Haz una frase de dos: París SSE
Describing who you are; start with ser: Soy ... SSE
How to deal with: to be SSE
To be, ser or estar: ¿Ser o estar? SSE
Describing things: Este edificio es ... Adjetivos que describen un objeto. ¿Ser o estar? SSE
Delicious! Now for how to pay compliments and survive: Apple Pie ¿Es o está muy buena la tarta de manzana que acaba de preparar mi mujer? SSE
To gain and to loose weight, and to change from estar to ser, and back: Jaime A Jaime se le conocía por su peso excesivo. ¿Qué pasa con ser y estar cuando empieza a perder kilos? SSE
'I want to complain because the roof leaks' vs. 'Since the roof leaks, I want to ...' Practice with the use of como C&S Complete and Send
Fifty ways to avoid stupid spelling mistakes SSE
Descargar, 'to download', but how do you make an imperativo? Check Herramientas
Juries are relatively new in Spain and not everybody likes to be in a jury: Jueces a regañadientes. Identify the examples of subjuntivo use in this text. C&S Complete and Send
I need a kitchen machine that works: Cocinera Identifica las formas del subjuntivo en este anuncio. Es un aparato que te va a encantar. C&S Complete and Send
I cannot believe that ... (+ subjuntivo). Practice with expressions of surprise and doubt and learn a few ways of talking about somebody's age: SSE
People need leaders who don't lie to them: who don't lie is a requirement. Learn how to express this structure in Spanish. La gente quiere políticos que les digan la verdad Ejemplos de uso del subjuntivo en titulares y citas de 'El País' del 16 de marzo de 2004. C&S Complete and Send
Brain drain - fuga de cerebros. Anyone who stops it deserves a round of applause. But read and work on this letter by someone who came back to Spain and doesn't like what she sees: Fuga de cerebros Make sure that you understand all underlying patterens. Practice first, than C&S, Complete & Send
'I hope that you can come' requires a subjuntivo: espero que puedas venir; I hope to be able to come takes an infinitive, normally, in Spanish: Espero que puedas venir / espero poder venir: infinitivo cuando el sujeto de la principal es el mismo que el actor de la oración dependiente SSE
Amnesty International needs your help in order to achieve a purpose. Analyze this text on reforms at the highest UN level and try to understand why the author uses subjuntivos in a number of cases. SSE
Lee este fragmento e intenta comprender los usos del subjuntivo
Todo lo que quieres saber sobre: todo SSE
Verbs on -ar-, -er, -ir, & estar, ser, tener, querer, ir, llamarse
All about decir SSE
All about contestar SSE
All about haber SSE
All about cuidarse SSE
All about hacer SSE
All about hay que SSE
All about ir/irse SSE
All about recordar y acordarse de SSE
All about tener que SSE
Check GBE and practice with MENTIR SSE
Check GBE and practice with TARDAR SSE
Retrieve the words that you have noticed in La psicología de la recesión using this list of dictionary definitions.
Give equivalents in English of then items of this list of words (Dos cabezas) SSE
Give equivalents in your language for the items on this list of words (El precio de un secuestro) C&S Complete and Send
Read the text and give equivalents in your language for the items on this list of words (El precio de un secuestro) C&S Complete and Send
Read, make notes and recover with the help of definitions from a learner's dictionary: Vuelven las 'bicis hippies'. Amsterdam recupera su flota de bicicletas públicas 30 años después, pero obliga a pagar por ellas SSE
Prepárate para cocinar. Por fin vas a conocer tú también ingredientes de los pollos del coronel Saunders C&S Complete and Send
Para expresar sorpresa: Mira tú por dónde C&S Complete and Send
Para expresar ¿qué? ... para el coleto ...C&S Complete and Send
Para expresar ... ¿a cookie? ... una galleta ... C&S Complete and Send
Do I put a conjugated form here, or do I just copy the infinitive? Spanish seems to need six verb forms! How come English works very well with one or two? And what can I do about it? SSE
Du pain, du vin, et du Boursin SSE
Word formation patterns: Metro de Moscú C&S Complete and Send
Word formation patterns: La ultraderecha holandesa se desintegra SSE
Word formation - the text: Marzo en Argentina (1) Read
Word formation - read and send your answers: Marzo en Argentina (2) C&S Complete and send
Word formation - find nouns and verbs that go back to the same base: Marzo en Argentina (3) C&S Complete and Send
Basic patterns of word order, combined with verbs of liking: Kasia and Nika SSE
Place the words in the proper order and turn them into a proper sentence Ordena C&S Complete and Send
Demasiados gastos regios para Delft El País, 25 de marzo de 2004. SSE
Juliana, una reina poco convencional El País, 22 de marzo de 2004. SSE
