Spanish Grammar Rules
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My free Spanish grammar lessons make learning Spanish grammar rules a breeze. Whether you are a Spanish language beginner or honing your advanced skills, I can help you master the basics and the finer points in no time.
It’s true that most folks learning to speak a foreign language don’t look forward to the grammar rules, but the better you understand how the language works, the more you can talk, read and write about!
Spanish grammar is nothing to be afraid of – in fact it can be the fastest way to learn the language, and teaches you things that you would struggle to work out if you relied on immersion and survival phrases alone.
I have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to find the answers to your Spanish grammar questions: if you know what you're looking for you can use the list of grammar rules provided, and if you're a Spanish language beginner you can work your way through my free step-by-step tutorials, starting with the basics.
For many Spanish language beginners, one of the hardest things is understanding verbs. If you want to go straight to the lesson on a certain verb, check out the list of Spanish verb lessons on this page. If you want to get your head around Spanish verbs in general, you can take yourself through my Spanish verb tutorials.
Do you know how to say “the”, “a” and “an” in Spanish? No? Not to worry, my lesson on understanding articles will teach you this in minutes.
If you want to be able to talk about people, places, and things in Spanish, you’ll need to understand how to use nouns, articles, endings and plurals. While you're on the subject, you might want to check out my lesson on Spanish subject pronouns, which will explain how to talk about “you”, “he”, “they” and “we” in Spanish.
You can't learn Spanish without asking questions! My lesson on Spanish question words will teach you how to ask questions in Spanish, all about inflection, punctuation marks and more.
What about when you want to describe things in Spanish? How do you say something is “big” or “great”, for example? I will talk you through this in my lesson on Spanish adjectives. You will also find it useful to be able to talk about who owns what in Spanish, and I cover this in my second tutorial on Spanish adjectives.
How do you talk about “me”, “him”, “her” and “us” in Spanish, or “this”, “that” and the other?! My series of lessons on direct and indirect object pronouns is waiting for you!
When you are new to foreign language, some of the first things you want to be able to tell your new friends is what you like or love, what you lack or need. You'll also want to express what is good, better and best, and what is super cool!
Although I've provided a LOT of information here, I'm sure the goal for most of you is not to become Spanish grammar experts, but to understand and speak Spanish confidently in the shortest time possible.. well I can make it a whole lot easier!
I've designed a learn Spanish course with you in mind... Rocket Spanish Premium is the easiest to follow system for learning how to speak Spanish available. It's an interactive course that makes you want to study. Also, it's practical. You'll discover exactly what to say in virtually all situations. Read more about Rocket Spanish here.
Mauricio Evlampieff
Rocket Spanish
Rocket Languages
People, Places, and ThingsMy free Spanish grammar lessons make learning Spanish grammar rules a breeze. Whether you are a Spanish language beginner or honing your advanced skills, I can help you master the basics and the finer points in no time.
It’s true that most folks learning to speak a foreign language don’t look forward to the grammar rules, but the better you understand how the language works, the more you can talk, read and write about!
Spanish grammar is nothing to be afraid of – in fact it can be the fastest way to learn the language, and teaches you things that you would struggle to work out if you relied on immersion and survival phrases alone.
I have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to find the answers to your Spanish grammar questions: if you know what you're looking for you can use the list of grammar rules provided, and if you're a Spanish language beginner you can work your way through my free step-by-step tutorials, starting with the basics.
For many Spanish language beginners, one of the hardest things is understanding verbs. If you want to go straight to the lesson on a certain verb, check out the list of Spanish verb lessons on this page. If you want to get your head around Spanish verbs in general, you can take yourself through my Spanish verb tutorials.
Do you know how to say “the”, “a” and “an” in Spanish? No? Not to worry, my lesson on understanding articles will teach you this in minutes.
If you want to be able to talk about people, places, and things in Spanish, you’ll need to understand how to use nouns, articles, endings and plurals. While you're on the subject, you might want to check out my lesson on Spanish subject pronouns, which will explain how to talk about “you”, “he”, “they” and “we” in Spanish.
You can't learn Spanish without asking questions! My lesson on Spanish question words will teach you how to ask questions in Spanish, all about inflection, punctuation marks and more.
What about when you want to describe things in Spanish? How do you say something is “big” or “great”, for example? I will talk you through this in my lesson on Spanish adjectives. You will also find it useful to be able to talk about who owns what in Spanish, and I cover this in my second tutorial on Spanish adjectives.
How do you talk about “me”, “him”, “her” and “us” in Spanish, or “this”, “that” and the other?! My series of lessons on direct and indirect object pronouns is waiting for you!
When you are new to foreign language, some of the first things you want to be able to tell your new friends is what you like or love, what you lack or need. You'll also want to express what is good, better and best, and what is super cool!
Although I've provided a LOT of information here, I'm sure the goal for most of you is not to become Spanish grammar experts, but to understand and speak Spanish confidently in the shortest time possible.. well I can make it a whole lot easier!
I've designed a learn Spanish course with you in mind... Rocket Spanish Premium is the easiest to follow system for learning how to speak Spanish available. It's an interactive course that makes you want to study. Also, it's practical. You'll discover exactly what to say in virtually all situations. Read more about Rocket Spanish here.
Mauricio Evlampieff
Rocket Spanish
Rocket Languages
- Understanding Nouns
- Is it a Boy or a Girl?
- Talking about People and Animals
- What “The”?!
- Same Endings, Different Story
- Talking about Things and Ideas
- Hermaphroditic Nouns
- When There’s More than One
- Understanding Articles
- How to Say “The” in Spanish
- How to Say “A” or “An” in Spanish
- Pronouns in Spanish
- Which “You” Should You Use?
- To Be or Not to Be
- Drop the Subject
- Talking about Whose It is and Where You’re From
- Talking about What You Do for a Living
- Be Careful with “To Be” Verbs
- Starting out: 0 to 35
- Masculine and Feminine Numbers
- Numbers from 36 to 102
- Asking How Much or How Many
- Numbers from 101
- Don’t Forget the Gender
- Reverse Puncuation: How to Write Big Numbers
- Exception at One O’Clock
- Talking about Quarter Hours and Thirty Minutes
- Asking at What Time Something will Occur
Spanish Verbs in the Present Tense
- Understanding Infinitives
- Isolating Verb Endings
- How to Conjugate a Verb
- Going To a Place
- Using IR to Talk about What is Going to Happen
- How to Ask Questions
- Inflection
- Funky Punctuation Marks
- Using a Statement as a Question
- Asking “Really? Is That True?”
- Where am I?
- Forming DEL from DE and EL
- How Do You Feel?
- Getting Nouns and Adjectives in Order
- Describing Things
- Adjust the Adjective to Suit the Noun
- Adjectives that End in –o or –a
- Adjectives that End in –e
- Describing How Much in General
- Short and Simple: Adjectives like BUEN and MAL
- Big or Great? Using GRAN and GRANDE
- When to Use ESTAR, When to Use SER
- The Importance of Getting SER and ESTAR Right
Spanish Adjectives Part 2 - Who Owns What
- My Hat, Your Hat: Understanding Possessive Adjectives
- What is Owned v. Who Owns It
- This is All Mine
- Talking about Me, Him, Her and Us
- Understanding Direct Object Pronouns
- When People are Direct Objects
To Whom? Adding Clarity to “Le” and “Les”
Putting Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns Together
- Which Object Comes First?
- Why Does ‘Le’ Change to ‘Se’?
- To Whom? Clarifying “Se”
- 4.4 More about Us and Them: Prepositional Pronouns
- Understanding Prepositions
- Prepositional Pronouns
- The Exceptions: Entre Tú y Yo, Conmigo and Contigo
- Understanding Prepositions
- Prepositional Pronouns
- The Exceptions: Entre Tú y Yo, Conmigo and Contigo
- Understanding This and That
- Demonstrative Adjectives in Spanish
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- A Note of Caution: Accent Marks
- Why Complicate Things? The Role of Irregular Verbs in Spanish
- Using TENER to Talk about Age, What You Have, Whether You’re Hungry, What You Feel Like Doing
- What is a Stem Change?
- A Rare Stem Change: i to ie
- Another Rare Stem Change: u to ue
- The Last and Strangest Stem Change: o to hue
- Now a G, Now an O, GO!
- Thinking about VALER
Using the Verbs DECIR and DAR - To Say and To Give
- Understanding the Present Progressive
- The Present Participles of Regular Verbs
- Irregular Stem Changing Verbs
Spanish Verbs SABER and CONOCER - Talking about what You Know
- Strange Shades of Meaning
- SABER: To Know Information or How to Do Something
- CONOCER: To Know a Person, Place, or Thing
- Knowing Places
Talking about What You Like, Love, and Lack
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Verbs without English Equivalents
- Using GUSTAR to Talk About What You Like
- Common Errors with GUSTAR
- Using FALTAR to Talk about What You Lack or Need
- Using the Verb QUEDAR
Spanish Reflexive Verbs - Actions You Perform on Yourself
- Understanding Reflexive Verbs
- When a Verb is Reflexive and When It is Not
- To Get Emotional with a Reflexive Verb
Talking about What’s Good, Better, and Best
- Understanding Comparatives and Superlatives
- For Better or for Worse: MEJOR QUE and PEOR QUE
- The Best of All: LA MEJOR
- The Most of All: MÁS DE
- Super Cool: The Ending -ísimo
- Some More Comparisons: MÁS QUE and MENOS QUE
- Expressing How Things are Alike: TAN COMO and TANTO COMO
Spanish Conjunctions - Talking about Ifs, Ands, Buts
- Understanding Conjuctions
Talking about Something and Nothing - Indefinite Words
- Understanding Indefinite Words
Talking about What Happened in the Past
- The Two Major Past Tenses
- Starting with the Preterite
Irregular Verbs in the Preterite
- Irregular Verbs that End in –zar, -car, -gar
- Stem-Changing Verbs in the Past
- Understanding LEER
- Understanding SABER
- Understanding TRAER
- A Few More Irregulars: HACER, VENIR, QUERER
Short Verbs: DAR, VER, IR and SER
- Identical Twins: IR and SER
- Going or Being? The Problem with FUI
Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean Something Else
Introduction to the Imperfect Past
- Distinguishing the Imperfect from the Preterite
- Irregular Verbs in the Imperfect
Using Multiple Tenses in a Sentence
Verbs that Say One Thing and Mean It
- Since When?
- Adverbs that Describe How an Action Occurs
- Adverbs that Describe When an Action Occurs
- Adverbs that Describe Where an Action Occurs
Prepositions Part I: A, DE, EN, HACIA, and CON
- Investigating ‘a’
- Examples of ‘de’
- Looking at ‘en’
- Understanding ‘hacia’
- More with ‘con’
Prepositions Part II: DESDE, ENTRE, SIN, HASTA
- DESDE: From or Since
- HASTA: Until, Up to, As Far As, Even, Including
- ENTRE: Among or Between
- SIN: Without
- Infinitives as Commands
- Verbs Followed by Infinitives
- Sensory Verbs
Prepositions Part III: POR and PARA
- Starting with POR
- Using PARA
- When POR and PARA Get Confusing
Asking for Something: PEDIR v. PREGUNTAR
- The Ordinary Asking Word: PREGUNTAR
- A Closer Look at PEDIR
- The Many Uses of ¿Qué?
- When to Use ¿Cuál?
- Using ¿Cómo? to ask What?
Using That, Whom, and Which in Statements
- Talking about Who and Whom
- Looking at LO QUE
- More about CUAL
- Either … Or
- Neither … Nor
- Not Even…
- When to Use PERO
- When to Use SINO
- Not Only … But Also
Unusual Ways of Using the Future Tense
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