Questions tagged [sustantivos]
Para preguntas sobre sustantivos, sus usos, significados, etimología o su gramática. // For questions about nouns, their use, meaning, etymology and grammar.
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What is the difference between "llover" and "lluvia"?
Both llover and lluvia represent rain.
What's the difference between these words?
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If "el padre" means "the parent," how do you specifically refer to a female parent?
I've done some searching on this, both here at StackExchange and elsewhere, but nothing I've found thus far addresses this question and in this day and age of single parent families where women are ...
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Is it possible to refer to a wife as "una marida?"
I know that "el marido" means "the husband" and that it can also be translated as "spouse," but I see no strong evidence that one would refer to a spouse of feminine biological gender as "una marida." ...
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What percentage of nouns ending in -a are masculine and what percentage of nouns ending in -o are feminine?
I was going through a discussion thread over at duolingo ("How to use El and La in Spanish"), when I came upon the following question:
Anyone know the percentage of Spanish nouns ending in -a that ...
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Use a scientific technique name as an adjective?
My lab performs a set of experiments that utilize a particular biological technique called ChIP-seq. I am trying to translate the following phrase:
We use the data produced by the ChIP-seq ...
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What are some ways to word "La silla está debajo de la mesa"?
I would like to know how one would re-order the Spanish sentence "La silla está debajo de la mesa" to add more variety to a paper discussing location.
Thanks!
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Function of "verde" in "Me gusta el verde de tu ojos"
Is the word "verde" in this sentence considered to have a funcion of an adjective or a name?
Me gusta el verde de tu ojos.
I personally think it's of a name because it's making the word "verde" ...
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Origin of verb-noun compound words
Spanish has many words formed by joining a verb with a noun which together describe the object that the word refers to:
cuentagotas, paraguas, rascacielos, etc...
When did these types of words first ...
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What is the difference between "pescado" and "pescados?"
In English, we make the distinction between "fish" and "fishes." Does that same distinction exist between the Spanish words "pescado" and "pescados?" If not, which of the following sounds more "...
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What are the rules for using the definite article before a noun used in a general sense? [duplicate]
I was recently reviewing rules regarding when the definite article is used in Spanish and when it is not. One rule (which is included on many websites that teach Spanish grammar) states that it is to ...
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Article + Possessive/Demonstrative + Noun Phrase: Acceptable in Spanish?
I've come across Spanish sentences where the article is followed by a possessive adjective or demonstrative adjective, followed by a noun. Normally, it is either the article or the adjective + noun, ...
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Gender-Number Agreement with Feminine Adjectives [duplicate]
I take a beginners spanish course in school and came across this blip one day. I was trying to describe a girl in a photo wearing pink socks as la niña lleva calcetines rosas. My teacher then said ...
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Using "amigui" instead of "amigo": Bien grax amigui
A friend (woman) originating from Honduras asked me via mobile message how I was doing, to which I answered:
Muy bien, y tu?
Her answer:
Bien grax amigui que tengas un dia muy bonita!
grax is ...
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How do you say "offset" in Spanish?
We use this word in IT to query some paged services. As they return a collection of objects, we can tell the service two different parameters to read all the pages. These are limit and offset.
How ...
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"Vídeo tutorial" or "videotutorial"
What is the correct form of "Vídeo tutorial" or "videotutorial"?
It refers to a video to teach other people about something.
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The reason of being feminine in `a su derecha`?
I've encountered the following sentences in my Rosetta Stone Spanish program:
El teatro está a su derecha.
El café está a su izquierda.
On the two sentences above, why do these use feminine nouns? ...
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What is the gender classification of a word which can take either gender?
A few words in Spanish have no specific gender. Generally (to my knowledge) these words refer to people, and the gender follows the gender of the person about whom is being spoken. Some examples:
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Why is "Tierra" capitalized but "cielos" is not?
In Chapter 3 of the book Aprendamos del Gran Maestro I came across this sentence fragment: "Dios es el Creador de todo: el hizo los cielos y la Tierra, ..."
Why is "earth" ("Tierra") capitalized ...
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Why so much controversy over a little old word like "sartén"?
According to Translate.com, "the pan" is "el sartén".
According to Duolingo, the object suffers from gender confusion and can be either "el sartén" or "la sartén".
Why would it have two different ...
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Palabras en castellano análogas a "safety" y "security" en inglés
Según Google, las palabras inglesas "safety" y "security", traducidas al castellano, ambas significan "seguridad". Sin embargo, "safety" y "security" ...
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What is the implied subject in these weather statements?
This question got me thinking about phrases such as:
Hace frio.
Está lloviendo.
In English, these are phrased as "It is cold" or "It is raining"--"It" is the subject.
In Spanish the ...
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Nombre del símbolo # en varios países
Varias veces, en publicidad radial o televisiva en Colombia, escucho que llaman a ese símbolo como hashtag. Yo lo conozco como numeral, pero estoy seguro que así no se le llama en otros países. ¿Qué ...
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When and why is a "determiner" necessary for a subject?
This answer mentions that:
In Spanish, for a number of reasons ... , a subject must have some sort of determiner attached to it. For cena that could be an article like una or la; a quantifier like ...
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Using El, La, Los and Las when it seems that they should not be used
I've been teaching myself Spanish for a while now and am getting ok but I am confused by the use of el, la, los and las. I know that they are used to give gender and number. That's no problem. What ...
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Origin of gender-neutral nouns such as "la/el artista", "la/el testigo", "la/el poeta"
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This question is more out curiosity than anything else, but I was wondering if there is a reason that nouns like "artista", "testigo", and "poeta" are gender neutral, meaning the word ending ...
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Is "gata" vulgar? What about "gatita"?
It's been indicated to me that in French "la chatte" (feminine version of "le chat", the cat) is used as a vulgar term and its usage is somewhat delicate.
Does the same apply to gata, or gatita?
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What is the implied noun in "empanada"?
I love empanadas. As I was eating one today, I guessed that "empanada" must mean something like "breaded". A quick web search made me feel inordinately proud of my guess. But I can't yet find a name ...
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Equivalente de "discoverability" en español
Estoy estudiando redes de computadoras y en el libro Head First Networking aparece un término que sí entiendo pero quisiera saber si existe algún equivalente en español para él, el término es "...
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Using embedded pronouns inside verbs [duplicate]
So, I'm in Spanish 1, and I've heard that pronouns (Yo, tu, el, etc.) are embedded in conjugated verbs. I've noticed the use of a separate pronoun along with a conjugated verb, and it seems a little ...
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Phrase used for daily status meeting?
What phrase is used in Latin America for a daily status meeting among coworkers or team members in a business setting?
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"Empanada", "Emparedado", and their genders
Lately, I've started noticing how some Spanish nouns are merely past-participles of verbs (with the addition of a -ado/-ada suffix), and that those verbs are sometimes derived from other nouns by ...
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¿"Los auriculares" o "el auriculares"?
¿Cuando hablo sobre un par de auriculares en español, cuál es correcto?
Los auriculares fueron caro.
El auriculares fue caro.
¿Y también, es auriculares la palabra correcta para esta cosa?
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How do you describe the directional parts of an object?
I'm working with a Mexican contractor to remodel my house, so it is quite common that I need to describe the sides of objects. I would like to speak with informal street-style Mexican with him because ...
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¿Si hay muchas personas que se llaman Jesús juntas, cómo debo designarlas?
¿Si hay muchas personas que se llaman Jesús juntas, cómo debo designarlas?
Eran varios Jesús a la vez
Eran varios Jesúes [Jesuses (!) ] a la vez
Me parece que no es como Paco o Pepe.
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How to say something is "annoying" in Spanish?
I have been wondering how to say annoying, adjective and verb, in Spanish (ES). I come from the Northwest of the US and we use this word very often.
I have seen examples using molestar but none of ...
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What's the plural of "suéter"?
What's the plural of "suéter"?
In Mexico, most of the times is called "sueters".
Is it "sueters" or "suéteres"?
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Two nouns in a row, or, is it OK to omit "de"?
Two or more nouns are sometimes used consecutively, with the second modifying the first.
For instance, I recently received a mail whose subject was "Honorarios migración." This is, I suppose, ...
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Is there a translation for "cougar"?
I mean cougar as in a middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man. I know the term asaltacunas, but this applies to both men and women, so I would like to know if there is a ...
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Translating "break" (during work)
In the US, it is common for workers to take a half-hour or hour lunch break in the middle of the day, plus two ten or fifteen minute breaks in the morning and afternoon. Spanish has many words that ...
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Origin of the name "Jesucristo"
The name Jesus translates simply as Jesús, and Christ as Christo. So why is Jesus Christ translated as Jesucristo rather than Jesús Cristo or Cristo Jesús?
Google gives me a plethora of explanations ...
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Are there any nouns with irregular plurals in Spanish?
In English, some nouns have regular plural forms ending in -s or -es and fewer are irregular. Fish in the plural is still fish while child becomes children.
In Spanish, nearly all nouns are regular, ...
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