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Comment on The Personal ‘a’ and Spanish Contractions by Alex-Learns-Spanish

Alex-Learns-Spanish — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:44:47 +0000

KC, It has to do with gender (word) and if it’s singular or plural.

In the example above: “María va al baile con Enrique”, ‘baile’ (the dance) is masculine, so…(to) ‘a’ combines with (the) ‘el’ instead of (the) ‘la’, which is feminine, to form ‘al’.

So, ‘de la’ is: (of the) — for feminine singular, ‘de los’ is: (of the) — for masculine plural, and so on…

There is a lesson that describes when things are masculine or feminine: http://www.learnspanishhowto.com/when-are-spanish-nouns-feminine-or-masculine-199.php

Comment on The Personal ‘a’ and Spanish Contractions by KC

KC — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:24 +0000

I still don’t know when I have to use del, de la, de los, or de las. same with al. When do I use the other three combinations???

Comment on How To Speak the Vowels in Spanish by Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:11:36 +0000

Very good article. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I think that this is very helpful for anyone that might want to learn Spanish. I learned how to produce the short “o” in English as in “hot,” by relating this sound with the Spanish “a” sound. they are very similar, but one has to be careful of not ending up saying hat instead of hot. Very good article, again.

Comment on El Acento in Spanish: To Mark or Not To Mark by Spanish-Teacher-Marlys

Spanish-Teacher-Marlys — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:59:21 +0000

As you can see in Rule 2. above, habló ‘he/she spoke’ (past tense) has an accent mark–the stress is on the last syllable.

Hablo on the other hand, does not. Hablo means ‘I speak’ (present tense).

Comment on El Acento in Spanish: To Mark or Not To Mark by Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:50:27 +0000

Does hablo have an accent mark?