Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
These include the grammatical custom (inherited from Latin) of using a grammatically masculine plural for a group containing at least one male; the use of the masculine definite article for infinitives (e.g. el amar, not la amar); and the permissibility of using Spanish male pronouns for female referents but not vice versa (e.g. el que includes ...
El policía (the policeman). Since la policía means "the police force", the only productive feminine counterpart is la mujer policía (the police woman). [24] A similar case is música (meaning both "music" and "female musician"). Juez ("male judge"). Many judges in Spanish-speaking countries are women.
Elle (Spanish pronunciation:, or less commonly plural: elles) is a proposed non-normative personal pronoun [1] [2] in Spanish intended as a grammatically ungendered alternative to the third-person gender-specific pronouns él ("he"), ella ("she") and ello ("it").
Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns, and, like many European languages, Spanish makes a T-V distinction in second person pronouns that has no equivalent in modern English. Object pronouns can be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis.
Based on that work, an abridged version was published in 1780, the full title of which was Diccionario de la lengua castellana compuesto por la Real Academia Española, reducido á un tomo para su más fácil uso (Dictionary of the Castilian tongue composed by the Royal Spanish Academy, reduced to one volume for its easier use).
Es el camino por el que caminabais = "It is the path [that] you all were walking along"/"It is the path along which you all were walking" In some people's style of speaking, the definite article may be omitted after a , con and de in such usage, particularly when the antecedent is abstract or neuter:
el hacha (afilada) = "the (sharp) axe" el aula (vieja) = "the (old) classroom" La is used, however, when el would imply a masculine noun: la ácrata (because el ácrata would be a male anarchist) la árabe (because el árabe would be a male Arab, or the Arabic language) Feminine el is never used, however, before feminine adjectives that begin ...
Mujer, 1993 album by Marta Sánchez; La Mujer, 1989 album by Shirley Bassey; Una Mujer, 2003 album by Myriam; Una Mujer, album by Olga Tañón "Una Mujer", a song by Cetu Javu from the album Where Is Where "Una Mujer", the Spanish version of Christina Agulilera's "What a Girl Wants"