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Irregularly, English nouns are marked as plural in other ways, often inheriting the plural morphology of older forms of English or the languages that they are borrowed from. Plural forms from Old English resulted from vowel mutation (e.g., foot/feet), adding –en (e.g., ox/oxen), or making no change at all (e.g., this sheep/those sheep).
In a clause like las mesas grandes son más bonitas 'large tables are nicer', for instance, all adjectives and determiners associated with the head noun (mesas) must agree with it in gender. Mesas is feminine, so the article must be feminine too; thus, las is used instead of los. The two adjectives, whether next to the noun or after the verb ...
Ni otra cama que una grande Más dorada que un altar, Con colchón de blanda pluma, Mucha seda y mucho olán. Y esta pobre viejecita Cada año, hasta su fin, Tuvo un año más de vieja Y uno menos que vivir Y al mirarse en el espejo La espantaba siempre allí Otra vieja de antiparras, Papalina y peluquín. Y esta pobre viejecita No tenía que ...
Substantivism is an economic position that helps to explain the social relations embedded within the economy. It was first proposed by Karl Polanyi, [1] who argues that the term "economics" has two meanings.
Platero and I, also translated as Platero and Me (Spanish: Platero y yo), is a 1914 Spanish prose poem written by Juan Ramón Jiménez. [1] The book is one of the most popular works by Jiménez, and unfolds around a writer and his eponymous donkey, Platero ("silvery").
Bahía de las Águilas (Spanish: [baˈia ðe las ˈaɣilas]; literally "Eagles’ Bay"), is an 8 km-long (5 mi) beach along the southwestern coast of the Dominican Republic in the province of Pedernales near the southernmost part of the border with Haiti.
According to the 2001 census, the total population of Quito (not the city itself) is 1,839,853, with 892,570 men and 947,283 women. According to the 2007 estimates, it is 1,840,000.
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria [a] (Spanish: [beˈɾonika miˈʃel βaʃeˈle ˈxeɾja]; born 29 September 1951 [2]) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency.