Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Vocabulary.pdf

PRACTICE

MAKES

PERFECT

Vocabulary

Dorothy Richmond

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Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Preliminary matters 1

The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation 2

Stress and accent marks 3

Plurals 5

Diphthongs 6

Punctuation marks 7

Cognates 8

Basic greetings 12

Highly useful data 13

1 The basics 18

Deﬁ nite articles 19

Indeﬁ nite articles 22

Yo tengo... , yo quiero... 25

Está , the “is” of location 28

The use of hay 30

VOCABULARY BUILDING The diminutive sufﬁ xes -ito and -ita 35

Standard orthographic changes 36

Cracking the gender code 37

Vocabulary

Family and friends 20

The animal kingdom 22

Around the house 25

Some basic words 26

The numbers 0 –10 27

Está 28

Words of location 28

Items in and around the house 31

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2 Regular verbs 41

Conjugation of regular -ar verbs 42

Deleting the understood subject pronoun 48

Conjugation of regular -er verbs 50

Qualitative adjectives 56

Conjugation of regular -ir verbs 60

VOCABULARY BUILDING The sufﬁ x -ería 67

Vocabulary

Common -ar verbs 44

Places of employment 46

Musical instruments 47

Common -er verbs 50

Food and drink 51

Colors 57

Common qualitative (descriptive) adjectives 58

Cognate adjectives 59

Common -ir verbs 60

In and around the school 62

Stores 67

3 Asking questions 70

Simple questions 71

Negative responses 74

Complex questions 77

Negative questions 80

Questions of quantity and limitation 82

The contractions al and del 85

Street addresses 87

VOCABULARY BUILDING The sufﬁ xes -ero and -era 90

Vocabulary

Items of clothing 72

Fabrics and material 74

Clothing: parts and decorations 79

Tourist sites: buildings 81

More tourist sites 84

Cooking phrases that use al 87

Directions on a map 88

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