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Below is a list of interrogative pronouns and phrases with the relative pronouns that go with them: qué – what, que – that, which; quién – who, whom (after prepositions), quien – who, whom (after prepositions) a quién – whom (direct object), to whom, a quien – whom (direct object), to whom; de quién – whose, of whom, cuyo ...
Enclitic pronouns (i.e. pronouns attached to the end of the verb (or related word) itself) most often appear with positive imperatives and may appear with infinitives and gerunds as well. In all compound infinitives that make use of the past participle, enclitics attach to the uninflected auxiliary verb and not the past participle(s) itself.
Singular nouns and plurals, for example, are treated as the same word, as are infinitives and verb conjugations. The table below includes the top 100 words from Davies' list of 5000. [7] [8] This list distinguishes between the definite articles lo and la and the pronouns lo and la; all are ranked individually.
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Unstressed pronouns in Old Spanish were governed by rules different from those in modern Spanish. [1] The old rules were more determined by syntax than by morphology: [2] the pronoun followed the verb, except when the verb was preceded (in the same clause) by a stressed word, such as a noun, adverb, or stressed pronoun. [1]
Spanish has different pronouns (and verb forms) for "you," depending on the relationship, familiar or formal, between speaker and addressee. Singular forms (Tú) eres : "You are"; familiar singular; used when addressing someone who is of close affinity (a member of the family, a close friend, a child, a pet).
A dummy pronoun is used when a particular verb argument (or preposition) is nonexistent, but when a reference to the argument (a pronoun) is nevertheless syntactically required. This is commonly the case if the verb is an impersonal verb , but it could also be that the argument is unknown, irrelevant, already understood, or otherwise taboo (as ...
In Spanish, the verb is inflected for both person and number, thus expression of the pronoun is unnecessary because it is grammatically redundant. [13] In the following example, the inflection on the verb ver, 'see', signals informal 2nd person singular, thus the pronoun is dropped. Similarly, from both the context and verbal morphology, the ...