Introduction

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Question Words

¿Qué? What? ¿Quién? Who? ¿Cuándo? When? ¿Cuál? Which? ¿Cuánto? How many/How much?

¿Por qué? Why?

¿Con quién? With who?

¿Dónde? Where?

Greeting Someone in Spanish

To greet someone in Spanish we say: ¡Hola! = hello

As you can see we do exactly the same as we have done with the question mark to open the phrase and close it when we are exclaiming!

Commonly used conversational phrases:

¿Qué tal? How are you?

¿Cómo estás? How are you?

Estoy bien I am good

Gracías Thank you

¿y tú ? And you?

Adios Goodbye

Hasta mañana See you tomorrow

Hasta luego See you later

Buenas noches Goodnight

Buenas tardes Good evening

Sometimes you aren’t always good, therefore how else can we respond?

Bien Good

Mal Bad

Muy mal Very bad

Muy bien Very good

Regular Ok

Fatal Terrible

Estupendo Wonderful

The Definite and indefinite article

The Definite Article The Definite article is also known as the word “the”.

Masculine Feminine Singular El La Plural Los Las

The Indefinite Article The indefinite article is also known as the word ‘ a’ or ‘some’.

Masculine Feminine Singular Un Una Plural Unos Unas

To make nouns plural in Spanish

To make nouns in plural there are 4 rules

If the noun ends in a consonant in Spanish= we change the article from singular to plural and then add ‘es’ to the noun in Spanish

un reloj = unos relojes

a clock = some clocks

If the noun ends in a vowel in Spanish= we change the article from singular to plural and then add ‘s’ to the noun in Spanish

el gato = los gatos

the cat = the cats

If the noun ends in an ‘s’ in Spanish= we change the article from singular to plural and add nothing to the noun

el jueves = los jueves

Thursday = Thursday

If the noun ends in ’z’ in Spanish = we change the article from singular to plural , remove the ‘z’ from the noun and add ‘ces’

el pez= los peces

the fish = fish

If the noun has an accent on the second syllable of the word= change the article from singular to plural , remove the accent and then follow the rules for whether it ends in a consonant or vowel

el ratón= los ratones

the mouse = the rats

A conversation between Harry and Jessica where:

• They greet each other

• They ask how each other are doing

• Both tell eachother how they feel

• They say goodnight

Jessica: ¡Hola Harry! ¿Qué tal?

Harry: Hola Jessica, estoy muy bien, ¿y tú?

Jessica: ¡estoy estupendo!, gracias

Harry: adios