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ciento
dos cientos
el hotel
aquí
la cerveza
setenta
ochenta
noventa
verde
gris
one hundred
two hundred
the hotel
here
the beer
seventy
eighty
ninety
green
grey
¿Qué hace usted?
What do you do?
¿Quien es usted?
Who are you?
Yo soy Señor Langware.
I am Mr. Langware.
¿Cuantas personas hay?
How many people are there?
Hay veinte y cinco personas.
There are twenty five persons.
¿Cuanto cuesta la mesa?
How much does the table cost?
La mesa cuesta sesenta y uno pesos.
The table costs seventy one pesos.
¿Cuanto cuestan las plumas?
How much do the pens cost?
Las plumas cuestan dos cientos pesos.
The pens cost 200 pesos.
I want to buy a green telephone.
Yo deseo comprar un teléfono verde.
¿Cuanto cuesta la leche?
How much is the milk?
¿Donde está la puerta?
Where is the door?
¿Donde estoy?
Where am I?
Deseamos ir al museo grande.
We wanted to go to the big museum.
Nouns in spanish are male or female. The word that is used for "the" before
the noun depends not only on this gender but also if the noun is singular or
plural. Usually words that end in -o or - ma are masculine and words ending
in -a or -dad or -ie are feminine. La=the for feminine singular and Las=the
for fem plural. El and Los are for male nouns. Add an s to the end of plurals
Of course when we want to say my (noun) or this (noun) or that (noun) we
don't use the word la or the el. We just say my book or mi libro.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. For example the big room or the
white dog. In spanish unlike english - adjectives come after the nouns they
describe. We might say ...el libro grande which means the large book.
Putting It Together
In spanish the verb follows the subject in a sentence. For example....
Yo necesito un sombrero is comprised of A) I -the subject
B) need -the verb
C) a hat -a noun
We even get a little more complicated by using an adjective and a 2nd verb.
Yo necesito ir al banco grande. Means I need to go to the big bank. Yo is
the subject. Necesito is the verb. Ir is a second verb. Al is made from
the word a (to) and the el(the) from banco. We put them together to form
al. Finally we have banco or bank. THIS IS THE LAST FORMAL LESSON.