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("marked") in small ways, usually at the end, according to their changing functions. <a href="/wiki/Verbs" class="mw-redirect" title="Verbs">Verbs</a> are marked for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_tense" title="Grammatical tense">tense</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_aspect" title="Grammatical aspect">aspect</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_mood" title="Grammatical mood">mood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">person</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_number" title="Grammatical number">number</a> (resulting in up to fifty <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation" title="Grammatical conjugation">conjugated</a> forms per verb). <a href="/wiki/Nouns" class="mw-redirect" title="Nouns">Nouns</a> follow a two-<a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">gender</a> system and are marked for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_number" title="Grammatical number">number</a>. <a href="/wiki/Personal_pronoun" title="Personal pronoun">Personal pronouns</a> are inflected for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">person</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_number" title="Grammatical number">number</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">gender</a> (including a residual neuter), and a very reduced <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_case" title="Grammatical case">case</a> system; the Spanish pronominal system represents a simplification of the ancestral Latin system. <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg/130px-Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg/195px-Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg/260px-Antonio_de_Nebrija_Introductiones_latinae_1550.jpg 2x" data-file-width="298" data-file-height="461"></a><figcaption>Frontispiece of the Grammatica Nebrissensis</figcaption></figure> Spanish was the first of the European vernaculars to have a grammar treatise, <a href="/wiki/Gram%C3%A1tica_de_la_lengua_castellana" title="Gramática de la lengua castellana">Gramática de la lengua castellana</a>, published in 1492 by the <a href="/wiki/Andalusia" title="Andalusia">Andalusian</a> philologist <a href="/wiki/Antonio_de_Nebrija" title="Antonio de Nebrija">Antonio de Nebrija</a> and presented to Queen <a href="/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile">Isabella of Castile</a> at <a href="/wiki/Salamanca" title="Salamanca">Salamanca</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Real_Academia_Espa%C3%B1ola" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Academia Española">Real Academia Española</a> (RAE, Royal Spanish Academy) traditionally dictates the <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_prescription" title="Linguistic prescription">normative</a> rules of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish language</a>, as well as its <a href="/wiki/Spanish_orthography" title="Spanish orthography">orthography</a>. Differences between formal varieties of <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_Spanish" title="Peninsular Spanish">Peninsular</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_Americas" title="Spanish language in the Americas">American Spanish</a> are remarkably few, and someone who has learned the language in one area will generally have no difficulties of communication in the other; however, pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary. Recently published comprehensive Spanish reference grammars in English include <a href="#CITEREFDeBruyne1996">DeBruyne (1996)</a>, <a href="#CITEREFButtBenjamin2011">Butt & Benjamin (2011)</a>, and <a href="#CITEREFBatchelorSan_Jos%C3%A92010">Batchelor & San José (2010)</a>. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Verbs">1 Verbs</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Present_indicative">1.1 Present indicative</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Past_tenses">1.2 Past tenses</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="#Preterite">1.2.1 Preterite</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#Imperfect_or_%22copret%C3%A9rito%22">1.2.2 Imperfect or "copretérito"</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="#Using_preterite_and_imperfect_together">1.2.3 Using preterite and imperfect together</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Present_progressive_and_imperfect_progressive">1.3 Present progressive and imperfect progressive</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Forming_gerunds">1.3.1 Forming gerunds</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Subjunctive">1.4 Subjunctive</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Present_subjunctive">1.4.1 Present subjunctive</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="#Imperfect_subjunctive">1.4.2 Imperfect subjunctive</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Nouns">2 Nouns</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Adjectives">3 Adjectives</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Determiners">4 Determiners</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Pronouns">5 Pronouns</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Adverbs">6 Adverbs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Prepositions">7 Prepositions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Conjunctions">8 Conjunctions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Syntax_and_syntactic_variation">9 Syntax and syntactic variation</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Order_of_constituents">9.1 Order of constituents</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Cleft_sentences">9.2 Cleft sentences</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Clitic_se">9.3 Clitic se</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-23"><a href="#Historical_approaches">9.3.1 Historical approaches</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-24"><a href="#Recent_approaches">9.3.2 Recent approaches</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Dialectal_variations">10 Dialectal variations</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Forms_of_address">10.1 Forms of address</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-27"><a href="#Voseo">10.1.1 Voseo</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-28"><a href="#Vosotros_imperative:_-ar_for_-ad">10.1.2 Vosotros imperative: -ar for -ad</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-29"><a href="#Non-normative_-s_on_t%C3%BA_form">10.1.3 Non-normative -s on tú form</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Third-person_object_pronoun_variation">10.2 Third-person object pronoun variation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#Que%C3%ADsmo_and_deque%C3%ADsmo">10.3 Queísmo and dequeísmo</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32"><a href="#Notes">11 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33"><a href="#References">12 References</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Verbs">Verbs</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Verbs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_verbs" title="Spanish verbs">Spanish verbs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_conjugation" title="Spanish conjugation">Spanish conjugation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_irregular_verbs" title="Spanish irregular verbs">Spanish irregular verbs</a></div> Every Spanish verb belongs to one of three form classes, characterized by the <a href="/wiki/Infinitive" title="Infinitive">infinitive</a> ending: -ar, -er, or -ir—sometimes called the first, second, and third conjugations, respectively. A Spanish verb has nine <a href="/wiki/Indicative_mood" class="mw-redirect" title="Indicative mood">indicative</a> tenses with more-or-less direct English equivalents: the <a href="/wiki/Present_tense" title="Present tense">present tense</a> ('I walk'), the <a href="/wiki/Preterite" title="Preterite">preterite</a> ('I walked'), the <a href="/wiki/Imperfect" title="Imperfect">imperfect</a> ('I was walking' or 'I used to walk'), the <a href="/wiki/Present_perfect" title="Present perfect">present perfect</a> ('I have walked'), the <a href="/wiki/Perfect_(grammar)" title="Perfect (grammar)">past perfect</a> —also called the <a href="/wiki/Pluperfect" title="Pluperfect">pluperfect</a>— ('I had walked'), the <a href="/wiki/Future_tense" title="Future tense">future</a> ('I will walk'), the future perfect ('I will have walked'), the <a href="/wiki/Conditional_mood" title="Conditional mood">conditional simple</a> ('I would walk') and the <a href="/wiki/Conditional_perfect" title="Conditional perfect">conditional perfect</a> ('I would have walked'). In most dialects, each tense has six potential forms, varying for first, second, or third <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">person</a> and for singular or plural <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_number" title="Grammatical number">number</a>. In the second person, Spanish maintains the so-called "<a href="/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction" title="T–V distinction">T–V distinction</a>" between familiar and formal modes of address. The formal second-person pronouns (usted, ustedes) take third-person verb forms. The second-person familiar plural is expressed in most of Spain with the pronoun vosotros and its characteristic verb forms (e.g., coméis 'you eat'), while in Latin American Spanish it merges with the formal second-person plural (e.g., ustedes comen). Thus, ustedes is used as both the formal and familiar second-person pronoun in Latin America. In many areas of Latin America (especially Central America and southern South America), the second-person familiar singular pronoun tú is replaced by vos, which frequently requires its own characteristic verb forms, especially in the present indicative, where the endings are -ás, -és, and -ís for -ar, -er, -ir verbs, respectively. (See "<a href="/wiki/Voseo" title="Voseo">voseo</a>".) In the tables of paradigms below, the (optional) subject pronouns appear in parentheses. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Present_indicative">Present indicative</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Present indicative" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The present indicative is used to express actions or states of being in a present time frame. For example: <ul><li>Soy alto (I am tall). (Subject pronoun "yo" not required and not routinely used).</li> <li>Ella canta en el club (She sings in the club).</li> <li>Todos nosotros vivimos en un submarino amarillo (We all live in a yellow submarine).</li> <li>Son las diez y media ([It] is ten thirty).</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Present indicative forms of the regular -ar verb hablar ('to speak') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) hablo</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) hablamos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú) hablas (vos) hablás/habláis</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) habláis </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) habla</td> <td>(ustedes) hablan </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) habla</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) hablan </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Present indicative forms of the regular -er verb comer ('to eat') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) como</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) comemos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú) comes (vos) comés/coméis</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) coméis </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) come</td> <td>(ustedes) comen </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) come</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) comen </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Present indicative forms of the regular -ir verb vivir ('to live') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) vivo</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) vivimos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú) vives (vos) vivís</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) vivís </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) vive</td> <td>(ustedes) viven </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) vive</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) viven </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Past_tenses">Past tenses</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Past tenses" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Spanish has a number of verb tenses used to express actions or states of being in a past time frame. The two that are "simple" in form (formed with a single word, rather than being <a href="/wiki/Compound_verb" title="Compound verb">compound verbs</a>) are the <a href="/wiki/Preterite" title="Preterite">preterite</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Imperfect" title="Imperfect">imperfect</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Preterite">Preterite</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Preterite" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The preterite is used to express actions or events that took place in the past, and which were instantaneous or are viewed as completed. For example: <ul><li>Ella se murió ayer (She died yesterday)</li> <li>Pablo apagó las luces (Pablo turned the lights off)</li> <li>Yo me comí el arroz (I ate the rice)</li> <li>Te cortaste el pelo (You had your hair cut, Lit. "You cut yourself the hair")</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Preterite forms of the regular -ar verb hablar ('to speak') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) hablé</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) hablamos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) hablaste</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) hablasteis </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) habló</td> <td>(ustedes) hablaron </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) habló</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) hablaron </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Preterite forms of the regular -er verb comer ('to eat') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) comí</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) comimos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) comiste</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) comisteis </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) comió</td> <td>(ustedes) comieron </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) comió</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) comieron </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Preterite forms of the regular -ir verb vivir ('to live') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) viví</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) vivimos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) viviste</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) vivisteis </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) vivió</td> <td>(ustedes) vivieron </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) vivió</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) vivieron </td></tr></tbody></table> Note that (1) for -ar and -ir verbs (but not -er), the first-person plural form is the same as that of the present indicative; and (2) -er and -ir verbs share the same set of endings. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id='Imperfect_or_"copretérito"'>Imperfect or "copretérito"</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=5" title='Edit section: Imperfect or "copretérito"' class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The imperfect expresses actions or states that are viewed as ongoing in the past. For example: <ul><li>Yo era cómico en el pasado (I was/used to be funny in the past).</li> <li>Usted comía mucho (You ate a lot – literally, this sentence is saying "You used to eat a lot", saying that in the past, the person being referred to had a characteristic of "eating a lot").</li> <li>Ellos escuchaban la radio (They were listening to the radio).</li></ul> All three of the sentences above describe "non-instantaneous" actions that are viewed as continuing in the past. The characteristic in the first sentence and the action in the second were continuous, not instantaneous occurrences. In the third sentence, the speaker focuses on the action in progress, not on its beginning or end. <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Imperfect forms of the regular -ar verb hablar ('to speak') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) hablaba</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) hablábamos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) hablabas</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) hablabais </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) hablaba</td> <td>(ustedes) hablaban </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) hablaba</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) hablaban </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Imperfect forms of the regular -er verb comer ('to eat') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) comía</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) comíamos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) comías</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) comíais </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) comía</td> <td>(ustedes) comían </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) comía</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) comían </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Imperfect forms of the regular -ir verb vivir ('to live') </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Singular </th> <th>Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th>First person </th> <td>(yo) vivía</td> <td>(nosotros/-as) vivíamos </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person familiar </th> <td>(tú, vos) vivías</td> <td>(vosotros/-as) vivíais </td></tr> <tr> <th>Second person formal </th> <td>(usted) vivía</td> <td>(ustedes) vivían </td></tr> <tr> <th>Third person </th> <td>(él, ella) vivía</td> <td>(ellos, ellas) vivían </td></tr></tbody></table> Note that (1) for all verbs in the imperfect, the first- and third-person singular share the same form; and (2) -er and -ir verbs share the same set of endings. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Using_preterite_and_imperfect_together">Using preterite and imperfect together</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Using preterite and imperfect together" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The preterite and the imperfect can be combined in the same sentence to express the occurrence of an event in one clause during an action or state expressed in another clause. For example: <ul><li>Ellos escuchaban la radio cuando oyeron un ruido afuera. (They were listening to the radio when they heard a noise outside.)</li> <li>Yo estaba en mi cuarto cuando usted entró. (I was in my room when you came in.)</li> <li>Era un día muy tranquilo cuando eso pasó. (It was a very peaceful day when that happened.)</li></ul> In all three cases, an event or completed action interrupts an ongoing state or action. For example, in the second sentence, the speaker states that he was in his room (expressed through the imperfect to reflect the ongoing or unfinished state of being there) when the other person "interrupted" that state by entering (expressed through the preterite to suggest a completed action). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Present_progressive_and_imperfect_progressive">Present progressive and imperfect progressive</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Present progressive and imperfect progressive" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The present and imperfect progressive both are used to express ongoing, progressive action in the present and past, respectively. For example: <ul><li>Estoy haciendo mi tarea. (I am doing my homework)</li> <li>Estamos estudiando. (We are studying)</li> <li>Estaba escuchando la radio. (I was listening to the radio)</li> <li>Él estaba limpiando su cuarto. (He was cleaning his room)</li></ul> The present progressive is formed by first conjugating the verb estar or seguir, depending on context, to agree with the subject, and then attaching a gerund of the verb that follows. The past (imperfect) progressive simply requires the estar or seguir to be conjugated, depending on context, in imperfect, with respect to the subject. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Forming_gerunds">Forming gerunds</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Forming gerunds" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> To form the gerund of an -ar verb, replace the -ar of the infinitive with -ando; e.g. jugar, hablar, caminar → jugando, hablando, caminando. For -er or -ir verbs, replace the -er or -ir ending with -iendo; e.g. comer, escribir, dormir → comiendo, escribiendo, durmiendo (note that dormir undergoes the stem vowel change that is typical of -ir verbs). In -er verbs (and some -ir verbs, like disminuir) whose stem ends with a vowel, the i of the -iendo ending is replaced by y: e.g. leer, traer, creer → leyendo, trayendo, creyendo. In -ir verbs whose stem ends with e—such as reír and sonreír—the stem vowel e is raised to i (as is typical of -ir verbs), and this i merges with the i of the -iendo ending; e.g. reír, freír → riendo, friendo. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subjunctive">Subjunctive</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Subjunctive" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#Spanish" title="Subjunctive mood">subjunctive</a> of a verb is used to express certain connotations in sentences such as a wish or desire, a demand, an emotion, uncertainty, or doubt. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Present_subjunctive">Present subjunctive</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Present subjunctive" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Normally, a verb would be conjugated in the present indicative to indicate an event in the present frame of time. <ul><li>Yo soy muy ambicioso. (I am very ambitious)</li> <li>Marta trae la comida. (Marta brings the food)</li></ul> If the sentence expresses a desire, demand, or emotion, or something similar, in the present tense, the subjunctive is used. <ul><li>Quiero que seas muy ambicioso. (I want you to be very ambitious—literally, I want that you be very ambitious)</li> <li>Me alegro de que Marta traiga la comida. (I am happy that Marta brings the food)</li> <li>Es una lástima que llegues tarde. (It is a shame that you arrive late)</li></ul> The subjunctive is also used to convey doubt, denial, or uncertainty. <ul><li>Busco un amigo que sea simpático. (I search for a friend who will be likable or I search for a likable friend)</li> <li>No hay ningún autor que lo escriba. (There are no authors who write that.)</li> <li>Es posible que ella sepa mucho. (It is possible that she knows a lot.)</li> <li>No parece que tengan mucho dinero. (It does not seem that they have much money.)</li></ul> In the first two examples, the ideally likable friend has not yet been found and remains an uncertainty, and authors "who write that" are not known to exist. In the third, possibility is not certainty, but rather a conjecture, and the last expresses clear doubt. Thus, subjunctive is used. Some of the phrases and verbs that require sentences to have subjunctive formation include: <ul><li>Dudar, negar, esperar, alegrarse de, temer, sentir, pedir, aconsejar, exigir, desear, querer, mandar</li> <li>Es necesario que, conviene que, no parece que, es dudoso que, es probable que, no creo que, importa que, parece mentira que</li></ul> Some phrases that require the indicative instead, because they express certainty, include: <ul><li>Es verdad que, es obvio que, es seguro que, parece que, es evidente que, creo que</li></ul> To form the first-person singular subjunctive, first take the present indicative first-person singular (yo) form of a verb. For example, the verbs hablar, comer, and vivir (To talk, to eat, to live) → Yo hablo, yo como, yo vivo. Then, replace the ending o with the "opposite ending". This is done in the following way: if the verb is an -er or -ir verb such as comer, poder, vivir, or compartir, replace the ending o with an a i.e. : Yo como; yo puedo; yo vivo → Yo coma; yo pueda; yo viva. If the verb is an -ar verb such as hablar or caminar replace the ending o with an e: i.e., Yo hablo; yo camino → Yo hable, yo camine. This forms the first-person conjugation. The other conjugations work similarly, as follows: <ul><li>Yo → Yo hable; yo coma; yo viva</li> <li>Tú → Tú hables; tú comas; tú vivas</li> <li>Él/Ella/Usted → Él hable; él coma; él viva</li> <li>Nosotros → Nosotros hablemos; nosotros comamos; nosotros vivamos</li> <li>Vosotros → Vosotros habléis; vosotros comáis; vosotros viváis</li> <li>Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes → ellos hablen; ellos coman; ellos vivan</li></ul> Since the vos forms are derived from vosotros, the following would be expected (and <a href="/wiki/Central_American_Spanish" title="Central American Spanish">used in Central America</a>): <ul><li>Vos → Vos hablés; vos comás; vos escribás</li></ul> However, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Academy" title="Royal Spanish Academy">Royal Spanish Academy</a>, following <a href="/wiki/Rioplatense_Spanish" title="Rioplatense Spanish">Argentinian usage</a>, recommends using the tú forms: <ul><li>Vos → Vos hables;<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> vos comas;<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> vos escribas<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Imperfect_subjunctive">Imperfect subjunctive</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Imperfect subjunctive" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Today, the two forms of the imperfect subjunctive – for example, "hubiese" and "hubiera", from "haber" – are largely interchangeable.* The -se form derives (as in most Romance languages) from the Latin pluperfect subjunctive, while the -ra form derives from the Latin pluperfect indicative. The use of one or the other is largely a matter of personal taste and dialect. Many only use the -ra forms in speech, but vary between the two in writing. Many may spontaneously use either, or even prefer the rarer -se forms. The imperfect subjunctive is formed for basically the same reasons as the present subjunctive, but is used for other tenses and time frames. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Nouns">Nouns</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Nouns" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_nouns" title="Spanish nouns">Spanish nouns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender_in_Spanish" title="Grammatical gender in Spanish">Grammatical gender in Spanish</a></div> In Spanish, as in other Romance languages, all nouns belong to one of two genders, "masculine" or "feminine", and many adjectives change their form to agree in gender with the noun they modify. For most nouns that refer to persons, grammatical gender matches biological gender. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Adjectives">Adjectives</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Adjectives" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_adjectives" title="Spanish adjectives">Spanish adjectives</a></div> Spanish generally uses adjectives in a similar way to English and most other Indo-European languages. However, there are three key differences between English and Spanish adjectives. <ul><li>In Spanish, adjectives usually go after the noun they modify. The exception is when the writer/speaker is being slightly emphatic, or even poetic, about a particular quality of an object (rather than the mundane use of using the quality to specify which particular object they are referring to). <ul><li>Mi casa roja could either mean that there are many red houses in the world but I wish to talk about the one that I happen to own, or that I have many houses but am referring to the red one. Mi casa roja = My house, which is red.</li> <li>Mi roja casa means that I am stressing how red my particular house is (probably the only house I have). Mi roja casa = My house, which is obviously red. Another way of thinking of it is that this makes the house red at declaration, whereas Spanish typically defines a house and makes it red later.</li></ul></li> <li>In Spanish, adjectives <a href="/wiki/Agreement_(linguistics)" title="Agreement (linguistics)">agree</a> with what they refer to in terms of both plurality (singular/plural) and grammatical gender (masculine/feminine). For example, taza (cup) is feminine, so "the red cup" is la taza roja, but vaso (glass) is masculine, so "the red glass" is el vaso rojo.</li> <li>In Spanish, it is perfectly normal to let an adjective stand in for a noun or pronoun—with (where people are involved) no implication of condescension or rudeness. For example, los altos means "the tall ones" or "the tall men". El grande means "the big one" or "the big man".</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Determiners">Determiners</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Determiners" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_determiners" title="Spanish determiners">Spanish determiners</a></div> Spanish uses <a href="/wiki/Determiner_(class)" class="mw-redirect" title="Determiner (class)">determiners</a> in a similar way to English. The main difference is that they inflect for both number (singular/plural) and gender (masculine/feminine). Common determiners include el ("the"), un ("a"), este ("this"), mucho ("much, a lot"), alguno ("some"). </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Pronouns">Pronouns</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Pronouns" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_pronouns" title="Spanish pronouns">Spanish pronouns</a></div> Spanish pronouns fall into the same broad categories as English pronouns do: <a href="/wiki/Personal_pronoun" title="Personal pronoun">personal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demonstrative_pronoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonstrative pronoun">demonstrative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Interrogative_pronoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Interrogative pronoun">interrogative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Relative_pronoun" title="Relative pronoun">relative</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Possessive_pronoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Possessive pronoun">possessive</a>. The personal pronouns–those that vary in form according to whether they represent the first, second, or third <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">grammatical person</a>–include a variety of second-person forms that differ not only according to <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_number" title="Grammatical number">number</a> (singular or plural), but also according to <a href="/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction" title="T–V distinction">formality</a> or the social relation between speakers. Additionally, these second-person forms vary according to geographical region. Because the form of a conjugated verb reflects the person and number of its subject, subject pronouns are usually omitted, except where they are felt to be needed for emphasis or disambiguation. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Adverbs">Adverbs</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Adverbs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> Spanish adverbs work much like their English counterparts, e.g. muy ("very"), poco ("a little"), lejos ("far"), mucho ("much, a lot"), casi ("almost"), etc. To form adverbs from adjectives, the adverbial suffix -mente is added to the feminine singular of the adjective, whether or not it differs from the masculine singular. Thus: <ul><li>claro ("clear", m. sg.) → clara (f. sg.) → claramente ("clearly")</li> <li>rápido ("fast, rapid", m. sg.) → rápida (f. sg.) → rápidamente ("fast, quickly, rapidly")</li> <li>natural ("natural", m. & f. sg.) → naturalmente ("naturally")</li> <li>triste ("sad", m. & f. sg.) → tristemente ("sadly")</li> <li>audaz ("bold", m. & f. sg.) → audazmente ("boldly")</li></ul> The adjectives bueno ("good") and malo ("bad") have irregular adverbial forms: bien ("well") and mal ("badly"), respectively. As in English, some adverbs are identical to their adjectival counterparts. Thus words such as temprano ("early"), lento ("slow"), and hondo ("deep") can also mean "early" (as in English, as in "He arrived early") "slowly", and "deeply", respectively. In series of consecutive adverbs that would each end in -mente on their own, the -mente is dropped from all but the final adverb, and the others are left as if they were adjectives in the feminine singular. Thus: <ul><li>rápida y fácilmente = "quickly and easily"</li> <li>lenta, cuidosa, y duchamente = "slowly, carefully, and skillfully"</li> <li>parcial o completamente = "partially or completely"</li></ul> There are also a wide variety of adverbial phrases in Spanish, such as a menudo ("often"), en todas partes ("everywhere"), de repente ("suddenly"), por fin ("finally"), and sin embargo ("however, nevertheless"). As with adjectives, the <a href="/wiki/Comparative" title="Comparative">comparative</a> of adverbs is formed by placing más ("more") or menos ("less") before the adverb. Thus más temprano ("earlier"), más rápidamente ("faster, quicker, more quickly"), menos interesantemente ("less interestingly"), etc. The <a href="/wiki/Superlative" class="mw-redirect" title="Superlative">superlative</a> is formed by placing the neuter article lo before the comparative, although it is generally used with an additional qualifier phrase such as que puedas ("that you can") or de todos ("of all"): lo más rápidamente que puedas ("as quickly as you can", lit. "the most quickly that you can"), lo más interesantemente de todos ("most interestingly of all"), lo menos claramente de ellos ("the least clearly of them"), etc. As with their corresponding adjectival forms, bien ("well") and mal ("badly") have irregular comparative forms (mejor ("better") and peor ("worse")), and más and menos are the comparatives of mucho ("much, a lot") and poco ("a little"), respectively. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Prepositions">Prepositions</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Prepositions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_prepositions" title="Spanish prepositions">Spanish prepositions</a></div> Spanish has a relatively large number of <a href="/wiki/Preposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Preposition">prepositions</a>, and does not use <a href="/wiki/Postposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Postposition">postpositions</a>. The following list is traditionally cited: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">A, ante, bajo, cabe, con, contra, de, desde, en, entre, hacia, hasta, para, por, según, sin, so, sobre, tras.</blockquote> Recently, two new prepositions have been added: durante and mediante, usually placed at the end to preserve the list (which is usually learnt by heart by Spanish students). This list includes two archaic prepositions (so and cabe), but leaves out two new Latinisms (vía and pro) as well as a large number of very important compound prepositions. Prepositions in Spanish do not change a verb's meaning as they do in English. For example, to translate "run out of water", "run up a bill", "run down a pedestrian", and "run in a thief" into Spanish requires completely different verbs, and not simply the use of correr ("run") plus the corresponding Spanish preposition. This is more due to the nature of English <a href="/wiki/Phrasal_verbs" class="mw-redirect" title="Phrasal verbs">phrasal verbs</a> rather than an inherent function of Spanish verbs or prepositions. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Conjunctions">Conjunctions</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Conjunctions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> The Spanish <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)" title="Conjunction (grammar)">conjunctions</a> y ('and') and o ('or') alter their form in both spoken and written language to e and u respectively when followed by an identical vowel sound. Thus, padre e hijo ('father and son'), Fernando e Isabel ('Ferdinand and Isabella'), sujeto u objeto ('subject or object'), vertical u horizontal ('vertical or horizontal'). The change does not take place before the (h)i of a diphthong, as in acero y hierro ('steel and iron'). Nor does the conjunction y change when initial in a question (where it serves to introduce or reintroduce a name as a <a href="/wiki/Topic%E2%80%93comment" class="mw-redirect" title="Topic–comment">topic</a>, rather than to link one element with another), as in ¿Y Inés? ('What about Inés?'). When the conjunction o appears between numerals, it was usually spelled with an accent mark (ó), in order to distinguish it from zero (0); thus, 2 ó 3 ('2 or 3') in contrast to 203 ('two-hundred three'). Nowadays only 2 o 3 is standard. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Syntax_and_syntactic_variation">Syntax and syntactic variation</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Syntax and syntactic variation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Order_of_constituents">Order of constituents</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Order of constituents" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Spanish unmarked word order for affirmative declarative sentences is <a href="/wiki/Subject-verb-object" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject-verb-object">subject-verb-object</a> (SVO); however, as in other Romance languages, in practice, word order is more variable, with <a href="/wiki/Topicalization" title="Topicalization">topicalization</a> and <a href="/wiki/Focus_(linguistics)" title="Focus (linguistics)">focus</a> being the primary factors in the selection of a particular order. <a href="/wiki/Verb-subject-object" class="mw-redirect" title="Verb-subject-object">Verb-subject-object</a> (VSO), <a href="/wiki/Verb-object-subject" class="mw-redirect" title="Verb-object-subject">verb-object-subject</a> (VOS), and <a href="/wiki/Object-verb-subject" class="mw-redirect" title="Object-verb-subject">object-verb-subject</a> (OVS) are also relatively common, while other orders are very uncommon outside of poetry. Thus, to simply say, "My friend wrote the book", one would say (SVO): <ul><li>Mi amigo escribió el libro</li></ul> Although bare VSO and VOS are somewhat rare in declarative independent clauses, they are quite common in sentences in which something other than the subject or direct object functions as the focus. For example: <ul><li>Hace pocos años escribió mi amigo un libro or Hace pocos años escribió un libro mi amigo = "A few years ago, my friend wrote a book"</li> <li>Ayer vio mi madre a mi amigo y le preguntó por su libro or Ayer vio a mi amigo mi madre y le preguntó por su libro = "Yesterday, my mother saw my friend and asked him about his book"</li></ul> In many <a href="/wiki/Dependent_clauses" class="mw-redirect" title="Dependent clauses">dependent clauses</a>, the verb is placed before the subject (and thus often VSO or VOS) to avoid placing the verb in final position: <ul><li>Este es el libro que escribió mi amigo, but rarely Este es el libro que mi amigo escribió = "This is the book that my friend wrote"</li></ul> A sentence in which the direct object is the <a href="/wiki/Topic_and_comment" title="Topic and comment">topic</a> or "theme" (old information), while the subject is part of the comment, or "rheme" (new information), often assumes OVS order. In this case the direct object noun phrase is supplemented with the appropriate direct object pronoun; for example: <ul><li>El libro lo escribió mi amigo</li></ul> Because subject pronouns are <a href="/wiki/Pro-drop_language" title="Pro-drop language">often dropped</a>, one will often see sentences with a verb and direct object but no explicitly stated subject. In questions, VSO is usual (though not obligatory): <ul><li>¿Escribió mi amigo el libro? = "Did my friend write the book?"</li></ul> Yes/no questions, regardless of constituent order, are generally distinguished from declarative sentences by context and intonation. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cleft_sentences">Cleft sentences</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cleft sentences" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A <a href="/wiki/Clefting" class="mw-redirect" title="Clefting">cleft sentence</a> is one formed with the copular verb (generally with a <a href="/wiki/Dummy_pronoun" title="Dummy pronoun">dummy pronoun</a> like "it" as its subject), plus a word that "cleaves" the sentence, plus a subordinate clause. They are often used to put emphasis on a part of the sentence. Here are some examples of English sentences and their cleft versions: <ul><li>"I did it." → "It was I who did it" or colloquially "It was me that did it."</li> <li>"You will stop smoking through willpower." → "It is through willpower that you will stop smoking."</li></ul> Spanish does not usually employ such a structure in simple sentences. The translations of sentences like these can be readily analyzed as being normal sentences containing relative pronouns. Spanish is capable of expressing such concepts without a special cleft structure thanks to its flexible word order. For example, if we translate a cleft sentence such as "It was Juan who lost the keys", we get Fue Juan el que perdió las llaves. Whereas the English sentence uses a special structure, the Spanish one does not. The verb fue has no dummy subject, and the pronoun el que is not a cleaver but a nominalising relative pronoun meaning "the [male] one that". Provided we respect the pairings of "el que" and "las llaves", we can play with the word order of the Spanish sentence without affecting its structure – although each permutation would, to a native speaker, give a subtly different shading of emphasis. For example, we can say Juan fue el que perdió las llaves ("Juan was the one who lost the keys") or El que perdió las llaves fue Juan ("The one who lost the keys was Juan"). As can be seen from the translations, if this word order is chosen, English stops using the cleft structure (there is no more dummy "it" and a nominalising relative is used instead of the cleaving word) whilst in Spanish no words have changed. Here are some examples of such sentences: <ul><li>Fue Juan el que perdió las llaves = "It was John who lost the keys"</li> <li>Son sólo tres días los que te quedan = "It is only three days that you have left"</li> <li>Seré yo quien se lo diga = "It will be I who tells him"</li> <li>Son pocos los que vienen y se quedan = lit. "There are few who come and stay"</li></ul> Note that it is ungrammatical to try to use just que to cleave such sentences as in English, but using quien in singular or quienes in plural is grammatical. <ul><li>*Fue Juan que perdió las llaves (incorrect)</li> <li>Fue Juan quien perdió las llaves (correct)</li></ul> When prepositions come into play, things become complicated. Structures unambiguously identifiable as cleft sentences are used. The verb ser introduces the stressed element and then there is a nominaliser. Both of these are preceded by the relevant preposition. For example: <ul><li>Fue a mí a quien le dio permiso = "It was me to whom he gave permission", lit. "It was to me to whom he gave permission"</li> <li>Es para nosotros para quienes se hizo esto = "It is us for whom this was made", lit. "It is for us for whom this was made"</li> <li>Es por eso por lo que lo hice = "That is why I did it", more literally: "It is because of that that I did it", or completely literally: "It is because of that because of which I did it"</li> <li>Es así como se debe hacer = "It is this way that it must be done", lit. "It is this way how it must be done" (como replaces longer expressions such as la forma en que)</li></ul> This structure is quite wordy, and is therefore often avoided by not using a cleft sentence at all. Emphasis is conveyed just by word order and stressing with the voice (indicated here within bolding): <ul><li>Me dio permiso a mí = "He gave permission to me"</li> <li>Se hizo esto para nosotros = "This was done for us"</li> <li>Por eso lo hice = "I did it because of that"</li> <li>Se debe hacer así = "It must be done this way"</li></ul> In casual speech, the complex cleaving pronoun is often reduced to que, just as it is reduced to "that" in English. <ul><li>Es para nosotros que se hizo esto</li> <li>Es por eso que lo hice</li> <li>Fue a mí que le dio permiso (preferred: a quien)</li> <li>Es así que se debe hacer (preferred: como)</li></ul> In the singular, the subordinate clause can agree either with the relative pronoun or with the subject of the main sentence, though the latter is seldom used. However, in the plural, only agreement with the subject of the main sentence is acceptable. Therefore: <dl><dt>Singular</dt></dl> <ul><li>Yo fui el que me lo bebí = "I was the one who drank it" (agreement with subject of main sentence)</li> <li>Yo fui el que se lo bebió (preferred form with same meaning, agreement with el que)</li> <li>La que lo sé soy yo = "I am the one who knows" (agreement with subject of main sentence)</li> <li>La que lo sabe soy yo = (preferred form with same meaning, agreement with la que)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Plural</dt></dl> <ul><li>Somos los únicos que no tenemos ni un centavo para apostar = "We are the only ones who do not have even a cent to bet" (agreement with subject of main sentence) (from dialogue of the <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a> novel <a href="/wiki/No_One_Writes_to_the_Colonel" title="No One Writes to the Colonel">El coronel no tiene quien le escriba</a>)</li> <li>Vosotras sois las que lo sabéis = "You girls are the ones who know" (agreement with subject of main sentence)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clitic_se">Clitic se</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Clitic se" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Clitic" title="Clitic">Clitics</a> are a necessary part of syntactic form and representation in Spanish. Defining a specific syntactic role of a clitic in Spanish is cumbersome, as they are used in a variety of ways. Syntactic approaches to this common element have attempted to find a universal way of handling them. For example, all languages are capable of having subjects, objects, and verbs, so a universal methodology to handling <a href="/wiki/Word_order" title="Word order">word order</a>, whether SVO, VSO, or OSV, is imperative for a multilingual and universal syntactic representation system to work. As such, there has been great discussion and investigation in the literature for that particular word order element. Clitics, on the other hand, have been given relatively less thought and investigation, particularly an inquiry into an uncomplicated approach in their syntactic distribution. Clitics offer a myriad of functional roles depending upon the language in question, further complicating the situation. Spanish is a diasporic language which also experiences diachronic variation. While Spanish is said to generally have flexible or "free" word order, others such as Pountain assert that the syntax is heavily influenced by <a href="/wiki/Topic_and_comment" title="Topic and comment">topic and comment</a> identification.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Historical_approaches">Historical approaches</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Historical approaches" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The syntactic role of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_object_pronouns" title="Spanish object pronouns">clitic</a> se and its forms in Spanish has undergone much debate within the research with no obvious conclusion. Part of the difficulty stems from the variable role se and its other forms play with regard to the contextual grammar. Some syntacticians have aptly termed the clitic se as "paradigmatic" in reference to the complexity and variance of se features and functions. It is utilized in a variety of Spanish grammar contexts, including the following forms: <a href="/wiki/Reflexive_pronoun" title="Reflexive pronoun">reflexive pronoun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reciprocal_pronoun" title="Reciprocal pronoun">reciprocal pronoun</a>, replacive pronoun (direct and indirect object), intrinsic pronoun (without the pronoun, the structure is ungrammatical), "derivational" pronoun, and "stylistic" pronoun. Further, se is used in addition with certain intransitive verbs, in reflexive-passive constructions, and in impersonal constructions. As a class, clitics have such a variety of grammatical functions that they are not always pronominal, <a href="/wiki/Anaphora_(linguistics)" title="Anaphora (linguistics)">anaphoric</a> or related to verbal <a href="/wiki/Argument_(linguistics)" title="Argument (linguistics)">arguments</a>. Syntactically, they are most often found in non-argument benefactive <a href="/wiki/Theta_role" title="Theta role">theta-roles</a>, in formation of passive, in formation of <a href="/wiki/Voice_(grammar)#Middle_voice" title="Voice (grammar)">middle voice</a>, and with a completive meaning. They can take the form of either phrasal constituents or words with an independent syntactic structure. Despite se being grammatically diverse in Spanish grammatical application, it does certain specific roles. Zagona, author of a comprehensive Spanish syntax textbook, has extensively outlined form and function in depth, stating that: <ul><li>[sic] the only true subject clitic in Spanish is "impersonal" se "one".<a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a></li></ul> The impersonal form is clearly defined as it does not double and uses only the third person singular verb form as in the impersonal form example here: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1209690778">.mw-parser-output .interlinear .bold{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .interlinear .smallcaps{text-transform:uppercase;font-size:smaller}</style><div class="interlinear"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">No<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="negation/negative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">NEG</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">se<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">puedecan.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">pisarwalk</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">elthe</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">céspedgrass</div>No se puede pisar el céspedNEG CL can.1SG walk the grass"You cannot walk on the grass."<a href="#cite_note-:1-7">[7]</a><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> Zagona also notes that, generally, oblique phrases do not allow for a double clitic, yet some verbs of motion are formed with double clitics: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">MaríaMaría</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">se<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">fuewent.away-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr></div>María se fueMaría CL went.away-3SG"Maria went away."<a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> Imperatives in Spanish do not require the use of clitics, but when they are used, a specific word order must be followed. With an affirmative verb, the clitic succeeds the verb. However, in a negative command, word order alters in that the clitic precedes the verb. Another review of sentence positions of se in various grammatical constructions offers the following example, demonstrating imperative differences thus: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">Ábreloopen.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="second person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">2SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="imperative mood" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">IMP</abbr>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div>Ábreloopen.2SG.IMP-CL.ACC"Open it."<div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">No<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="negation/negative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">NEG</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">lo<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">abras.open-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="second person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">2SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="imperative mood" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">IMP</abbr></div>No lo abras.NEG CL.ACC open-2SG.IMP"Don't open it."<a href="#cite_note-:2-8">[8]</a><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> With continuous verbs, the clitic can precede the auxiliary verb or follow the participle, as in (1a) and (1b): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(1a)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">JuanJohn</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">lo<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">estabawas</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">preparandopreparing</div>Juan lo estaba preparandoJohn CL.ACC was preparing"John was preparing it"<div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(1b)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">JuanJohn</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">estabawas</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">preparándo-lopreparing-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div>Juan estaba preparándo-loJohn was preparing-CL.ACC(same as 1a)<div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> The clitic cannot follow a past or passive participle, as in (2b): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(2a)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">MaríaMaría</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">yaalready</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">lo<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">habíahad</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">preparadoprepared</div>María ya lo había preparadoMaría already CL.ACC had prepared"Maria had already prepared it"<div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(2b)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">*MaríaMaría</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">yaalready</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">habíahad</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">preparádo-loprepared-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div>*María ya había preparádo-loMaría already had prepared-CL.ACC(ungrammatical in modern Spanish) <a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> Specific issues arise in clitic use and syntactic representation in terms of <a href="/wiki/Animacy" title="Animacy">animacy</a>. The Spanish language does not explicitly demonstrate in its grammar whether an object, either direct or indirect, refers to an animate or inanimate object. Therefore, the use of two clitics is common, although not always required. In this way, clitics can be doubled or "redundant" when two instances occur within the same phrase. Double clitics are found in instances of phrases with both direct accusative case objects and indirect dative objects in this way: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">Te<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="dative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">DAT</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">lo<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="clitic" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CL</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ACC</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">dijetold.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;">ayer.yesterday</div>Te lo dije ayer.CL.DAT CL.ACC told.1SG yesterday"I told you yesterday."<a href="#cite_note-:1-7">[7]</a><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> Regarding <a href="/wiki/Clitic_doubling" title="Clitic doubling">clitic doubling</a> in Spanish, Ordóñez has suggested a "cluster" versus "split" formation, weighing consideration of the double clitic as a single unit (cluster) or a separable unit (split). The syntactic approach maintains a <a href="/wiki/Dislocation_(syntax)" title="Dislocation (syntax)">left-dislocation</a> for the clitics while sustaining a separation from the verb.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> In the cluster model, both clitics are two adjacent constituents whereas the split model, one clitic has been split from the other, appearing higher on the syntactic tree. Both are still under the same <a href="/wiki/C-command" title="C-command">c-command</a> of the left branch but are no longer <a href="/wiki/C-command" title="C-command">sisters</a> to each other. Ordóñez suggests that when clitics are sisters, they may not even be considered <a href="/wiki/Constituent_(linguistics)" title="Constituent (linguistics)">constituents</a> in the syntax. The hypothesis includes a requirement that a non-third person clitic is located higher on a tree than the third person clitic. In fact, <a href="/wiki/Clitic_climbing" title="Clitic climbing">clitic climbing</a> is a common feature in Romance languages with designation of clitics as unbound <a href="/wiki/Bound_and_free_morphemes" title="Bound and free morphemes">morphemes</a> where the clitic "climbs" to adjoin the verb in a higher position.<a href="#cite_note-worldcat.org-10">[10]</a> This widely discussed theory has involved raising of the clitic se as an <a href="/wiki/Unaccusative_verb" title="Unaccusative verb">unaccusative</a> because of the lack of external argument in the grammar structure. The object clitic begins in the subject position of the verb, moving up to attach to the verb via adjunction on the left. Another theory is the "base-generation" which considers clitics to be <a href="/wiki/Affix" title="Affix">affixes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> However, both approaches fail when there is clitic doubling. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Recent_approaches">Recent approaches</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Recent approaches" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> As recently as 2021, Cuervo has suggested that, for clitic doubling, the solution is considering the dative clitic to be the head of an Applicative Phrase with care taken in identifying whether the form is <a href="/wiki/Clitic#Proclitic" title="Clitic">proclitic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Clitic#Enclitic" title="Clitic">enclitic</a>. Cuervo addresses the difference by positing the following: if the process is proclitic, there is climbing; if the process is enclitic, there is no climbing.<a href="#cite_note-worldcat.org-10">[10]</a> Thus, the determining factor for syntactic presentation is the type of <a href="/wiki/Non-finite_clause" title="Non-finite clause">verbal phrase</a>. Bradley illustrates some inflexible constructions, mainly when two third-person pronouns are within the same sentence and the indirect object must be expressed via se: <ul><li>Ya se lo he mandado</li> <li>already CL(Nom.) CL(Acc.) sent-presperf</li> <li>"I have already sent it"<a href="#cite_note-:2-8">[8]</a></li></ul> In such cases, one solution is to use the particle a followed by an infinitive verb when the clitic precedes an <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_verb" title="Auxiliary verb">auxiliary verb</a>, as in the example provided below: <ul><li>Nos vamos a acostar</li> <li>CL(Nom.) go-1.pres. to go to bed</li> <li>"We are going to bed"<a href="#cite_note-:1-7">[7]</a></li></ul> The clitic is not attached to the infinitive verb; instead, it is in subject position. Grammatically, attachment to the verb occurs with a <a href="/wiki/Nonfinite_verb" title="Nonfinite verb">non-finite</a> or a main conjugated verb.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The clitic adjoins the verb and undergoes <a href="/wiki/Syntactic_movement#Phrasal_movement_vs._head_movement" title="Syntactic movement">head movement</a> to check its <a href="/wiki/Feature_(linguistics)" title="Feature (linguistics)">features</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Additional structures for direct and indirect objects have been suggested. Other views include the use of AgrS and AgrO for Spanish when clitics are involved. Daussá states that se can block features as it travels attached to the appropriate verb form from the <a href="/wiki/Feature_geometry" title="Feature geometry">feature geometry</a> which alters the nodes. Daussá’s realization of syntactic structure presents a solution for the paradigmatic issue of se using AgrO and AgrS. This model includes a <a href="/wiki/Determiner_phrase#:~:text=In_linguistics,_a_determiner_phrase,many_modern_theories_of_syntax.&text=On_the_DP_analysis,_the,an_NP,_not_a_DP." title="Determiner phrase">Determiner Phrase</a> that is <a href="/wiki/Nominative_case" title="Nominative case">nominative</a> with verbal agreement in both person and number. Romain has also offered a thorough examination of the various theories, concluding that se is part of a Determiner Phrase.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> While there had been some postulation that clitics are heads of their own phrases, there has not been much support given to those claims. Even more recently, Lewandowski has focused on one function in the use of se with reflexive verbs, the completive, wherein with specific verbs the clitic denotes a completion of an action.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Lewandowski has proposed an interconnected functionality for the Spanish reflexive pronoun, representing this concept via a cluster map indicating semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical functions. His discussion has centered around the "polyfunctionality" of se and how best to syntactically handle this issue, perhaps by not separating the syntax from morphology. Another recent view is that there are two syntactic formations: first, that se is a probe for A-movement which results in a paradigmatic se and second, that non-paradigmatic se is represented by third person singular.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> This cross-referencing of syntax and morphology overlapping with a communicative stylistic approach has been suggested in the past.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Dialectal_variations">Dialectal variations</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Dialectal variations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Forms_of_address">Forms of address</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Forms of address" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The use of usted and ustedes as a polite form of address is universal. However, there are variations in informal address. Ustedes replaces vosotros in part of <a href="/wiki/Andalusia" title="Andalusia">Andalusia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a>, and Latin America, except in the liturgical or poetic of styles. In some parts of Andalusia, the pronoun ustedes is used with the standard vosotros endings. Depending on the region, Latin Americans may also replace the singular tú with usted or vos. The choice of pronoun is a tricky issue and can even vary from village to village. Travellers are often advised to play it safe and call everyone usted. A feature of the speech of the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a> and other areas where syllable-final /s/ is completely silent is that there is no audible difference between the second- and third-person singular form of the verb. This leads to redundant pronoun use, for example, the tagging on of ¿tú ves? (pronounced tuvé) to the ends of sentences, where other speakers would say ¿ves?. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Voseo">Voseo</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Voseo" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Voseo" title="Voseo">Voseo</a></div> Vos was used in medieval Castilian as a polite form, like the French vous and the Italian voi, and it used the same forms as vosotros. This gave three levels of formality: <ul><li>Tú quieres</li> <li>Vos queréis (originally queredes)</li> <li>Vuestra merced quiere (today usted)</li></ul> Whereas vos was lost in standard Spanish, some dialects lost tú, and began using vos as the informal pronoun. The exact connotations of this practice, called <a href="/wiki/Voseo" title="Voseo">voseo</a>, depend on the dialect. In certain countries there may be socioeconomic implications. Voseo uses the pronoun vos for tú but maintains te as an object pronoun and tu and tuyo as possessives. In <a href="/wiki/Voseo" title="Voseo">voseo</a>, verbs corresponding to vos in the present indicative (roughly equivalent to the English simple present), are formed from the second person plural (the form for vosotros). If the second person plural ends in áis or éis, the form for vos drops the i: <ul><li>Vosotros habláis – vos hablás</li> <li>Vosotros tenéis – vos tenés</li></ul> Similarly the verb ser (to be) has: <ul><li>Vosotros sois – vos sos</li></ul> If the second person plural ends in -ís (with an accent on the í), then the form for vos is identical: <ul><li>Vosotros vivís – vos vivís</li> <li>Vosotros oís – vos oís</li> <li>Vosotros huís – vos huís</li></ul> In the imperative, the form for vos is also derived from the second person plural. The latter ends always in -d. So for the form for vos this d is removed, and if the verb has more than one syllable, an accent is added to the last vowel: <ul><li>Tened (vosotros) – tené (vos)</li> <li>Dad (vosotros) – da (vos)</li></ul> The only exception to these rules is in the verb ir (to go), which does not have an imperative form for vos and uses the analogous form of the verb andar, which has a similar meaning, and is regular: <ul><li>Andad – andá</li></ul> In the present subjunctive, the same rules as for the present indicative apply, though these forms coexist in Argentina with those for the pronoun tú: <ul><li>Que vosotros digáis – que vos digás</li></ul> Or: <ul><li>Que tú digas – que vos digas</li></ul> Other tenses always have the same form for vos as for tú. Outside Argentina, other combinations are possible. For instance, people in <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a> may use standard vosotros endings for vos (vos habláis, que vos habléis). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Vosotros_imperative:_-ar_for_-ad">Vosotros imperative: -ar for -ad</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Vosotros imperative: -ar for -ad" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Spain, colloquially, the infinitive is used instead of the normative imperative for vosotros. This is not accepted in the <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_prescription" title="Linguistic prescription">normative</a> language. <ul><li>¡Venir! instead of ¡Venid!</li> <li>¡Callaros! instead of ¡Callaos! (¡Callarse! in some dialects)</li> <li>¡Iros! or ¡Marcharos! instead of ¡Idos!</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Non-normative_-s_on_tú_form">Non-normative -s on tú form</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Non-normative -s on tú form" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A form used for centuries but never accepted normatively has an -s ending in the second person singular of the preterite or simple past. For example, lo hicistes instead of the normative lo hiciste; hablastes tú for hablaste tú. That is the only instance in which the tú form does not end in an -s in the <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_prescription" title="Linguistic prescription">normative</a> language. <a href="/wiki/Judaeo-Spanish" title="Judaeo-Spanish">Ladino</a> has gone further with hablates. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third-person_object_pronoun_variation">Third-person object pronoun variation</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Third-person object pronoun variation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The third-person direct-object and indirect-object pronouns exhibit variation from region to region, from one individual to another, and even within the language of single individuals. The Real Academia Española prefers an "etymological" usage, one in which the indirect object function is carried by le (regardless of gender), and the direct object function is carried by la or lo (according to the gender of the antecedent, and regardless of its animacy). The Academy also condones the use of le as a direct object form for masculine, animate antecedents (i.e. male humans). Deviations from these approved usages are named <a href="/wiki/Le%C3%ADsmo" title="Leísmo">leísmo</a> (for the use of le as a direct object), and <a href="/wiki/La%C3%ADsmo" class="mw-redirect" title="Laísmo">laísmo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lo%C3%ADsmo" title="Loísmo">loísmo</a> (for the use of la and lo as indirect objects). The object pronoun variation is studied in detail by <a href="#CITEREFGarc%C3%ADaOtheguy1977">García & Otheguy (1977)</a>. Here are some examples for this: <ul><li>Leísmo: Le miraron (They saw him/her/it). Normative: lo miraron or la miraron depending on the gender of the object.</li> <li>Laísmo: La dijeron que se callara (They told her to shut up). Normative: Le dijeron que se callara. The person who is told something is an indirect object in Spanish, and the substituting pronoun is the same for both genders.</li> <li>Loísmo: Lo dijeron que se callara (They told him to shut up). Normative: Le dijeron que se callara. See above.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Queísmo_and_dequeísmo">Queísmo and dequeísmo</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Queísmo and dequeísmo" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Dependent_clause" title="Dependent clause">Noun clauses</a> in Spanish are typically introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Complementizer" title="Complementizer">complementizer</a> que, and such a noun clause may serve as the object of the preposition de, resulting in the sequence de que in the standard language. This sequence, in turn, is often reduced colloquially to just que, and this reduction is called <a href="/wiki/Que%C3%ADsmo" title="Queísmo">queísmo</a>. Some speakers, by way of <a href="/wiki/Hypercorrection" title="Hypercorrection">hypercorrection</a> (i.e. in an apparent effort to avoid the "error" of queísmo), insert de before que in contexts where it is not prescribed in standard grammar. This insertion of "extraneous" de before que — called <a href="/wiki/Deque%C3%ADsmo" title="Dequeísmo">dequeísmo</a> — is generally associated with less-educated speakers. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(11)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_grammar&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-11 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-11"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKamen2003" class="citation book cs1">Kamen, Henry (2003). 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