Say What You Like in Spanish
Vocabulary
Let's start off with the vocab words in these lessons!
Nouns
Spanish | English |
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el animal | animal |
la comida | food |
la historia | history |
el museo | museum |
el ruido | noise |
el teatro | theater |
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Adverb
Indirect Object Pronouns
Prepositional Pronouns
Prepositional pronouns are pronouns that come after prepositions.
Verbs
In this skill, you learn the following verbs!
Note that both encantar and gustar are typically used in their third-person singular and plural forms.
Encantar
Encantaris a regular -ar verb that means to love.
Conjugation Tip
With encantar and gustar, the subject of the sentence is the thing being liked, while the thing doing the liking is expressed via an indirect object.
Spanish | Literal English Translation | Everyday English Translation |
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Me gustan los animales. | Animals are pleasing to me. | I like animals. |
- In the above Spanish sentence, animales (animals) is the subject, so gustar is conjugated in the third person plural to match the plural word animales.
- The indirect object me is used to show to whom the animals are pleasing.
Let’s look at some more examples:
Gustar
Gustaris a regular -ar verb that means to like.
Traducir
Traduciris an -ir verb with an irregular yo form that means to translate.
Pronoun(s) | Conjugation | Translation | Notes |
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yo | traduzco | I translate | |
tú | traduces | you translate | informal singular you |
vos | traducís | you translate | informal singular you (in parts of Latin America) |
él, ella | traduce | he, she translates | |
usted | traduce | you translate | formal singular you |
nosotros, nosotras | traducimos | we translate | |
vosotros, vosotras | traducís | you translate | informal plural you (in Spain) |
ellos, ellas | traducen | they translate | |
ustedes | traducen | you translate | plural you (in Latin America), formal plural you (in Spain) |
Phrases
Here are some of the phrases used in these lessons!
Quiz Yourself!
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Spanish Conversation
Fantastic! Let's put the grammar and vocab from above to the test in the following example of a conversation in Spanish.
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