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#10Spanish by O'Shawcroft
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He recibido los resultados de los que están molestados por los mosquitos.
Darles las siguientes dosis.
Después de doce horas, darles dos dosis más, y dos más después de siete días.
Ellos serán curados si se toman las dosis diariamente.

I have received the results of those who are annoyed by mosquitoes.
Give them the following doses.
After twelve hours, give them two more doses, and two more after seven days.
They will be cured if the doses are taken daily.

  • curado - cured (adj)
  • dar - to give (v)
  • de - of (prep)
  • después - after (prep)
  • día - day (n-MASC)
  • diariamente - daily (adv)
  • doce - twelve (num)
  • dos - two (num)
  • dosis - dose (n-FEM)
  • ellos - they (pron)
  • estar - to be (v)
  • haber - to have (v)
  • hora - hour (n)
  • las - the (art)
  • les - them (pron)
  • los - the (art)
  • más - more (adv)
  • mosquito - mosquito (n-MASC)
  • molestar - to bother (v)
  • por - by (prep)
  • que - that (conj)
  • recibir - to receive (v)
  • resultado - result (n-MASC)
  • se - third person reflexive (pron)
  • ser - to be (v)
  • si - if (conj)
  • siete - seven (num)
  • siguiente - following (adj)
  • tomar - to take (v)
  • y - and (conj)

Word Order: SVO.

Genders: Masculine/Feminine.

The articles are el (masculine) and la (feminine), their plurals are los and las respectively.

Plurals are done by applying an -s at the end of the noun, but this sometimes vary from noun to noun.

Verb conjugations occur regularly and is a prominent feature of Spanish, as all 6 persons are conjugated in a frequent manner. Verbs are divided into two types, the ones that end with -ar, and the ones that end with -er/-ir.

Present Tense:

  • -ar: -o/-as/-a/-mos/-áis/-an

Past Tense:

  • Irregular conjugations:
    • ser: seré/serás/será/seremos/seréis/serán
  • Irregular conjugations:
    • haber: he/has/ha/hemos/habéis/han
    • estar: estoy/estás/está/estamos/estáis/están

For past participles, -ar verbs change their ending to -ado, while -er/-ir verbs end with -ido.

An object pronoun can be added after the end of a verb as a clitic.

Reflexive verbs are used when actions are done upon themselves, where a "se" is added before the verb.

The adjectives and adverbs have to agree with the gender and number of the noun, causing them to change endings (adding an -s for plural. or changing ending vowels. (o for masculine, a for feminine))

Do note that there are two "to be"s in Spanish, ser and estar, they possess the same meaning in English.

Ask me if you‘ve got any questions, this is Rick Shaw signin' off.