Spanish Grammar Lessons

Parts of Speech

Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Adjectives can describe shape, color, size, and many other things about a noun. Click here for an introduction to Spanish adjectives as well as lessons on the various types

Articles

Learn about Spanish articles: definite, indefinite, and neuter.

Nouns

An introduction to Spanish nouns.

Pronouns

Click here for the complete list of lessons on Spanish pronouns.

Adverbs

An adverb is an invariable word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs can provide additional information about time, manner, place, frequency, or quantity. They explain when, how, where, how often, or to what degree something is done.

Conjunctions

Conjunctions provide a link between similar words or groups of words, such as nouns, verbs, people, and clauses.

Prepositions

Lessons on Spanish prepositions.

Verbs

A list of all of the verb lessons available on this site.

Augmentatives

In Spanish, suffixes called augmentatives can be added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and names to indicate bigness, as well as other ideas such as excessiveness, contempt, or disdain. In this way, you can say that something is big without adding an adjectives like grande to indicate bigness orrepugnante to indicate contempt.

Capitalization

Spanish and English capitalization are quite different, as it is much less common in Spanish. Many words that must be capitalized in English cannot be in Spanish, so read through this lesson to make sure that you're not over-capitalizing your Spanish.

Comparatives and Superlatives

Spanish comparatives and superlatives are fairly simple. Comparatives are the comparison of one thing to another (more, less, or as), while superlatives indicate that one person/thing is the most, best, least, or worst in comparison to others.

Contractions

Contractions in Spanish and English are very different, because English contractions, such as it is > it's, are considered somewhat informal and are optional. In Spanish, however, contractions are required.

Diminutives

In Spanish, suffixes called diminutives can be added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and names to indicate smallness, as well as other ideas such as affection, humor, pity, irony, or ridicule. In this way, you can say that something is little without adding an adjectives likepequeño to indicate smallness or querido to indicate affection, etc.

Direct and Indirect Speech

In Spanish, as in English, there are two different ways to express the words of another person: direct speech (or direct style) and indirect speech (indirect style).

Gender Exceptions

In general, Spanish nouns that end in an O are masculine, and those that end in an A are feminine. Here are the exceptions to this rule.

Intensifiers

In Spanish, there are a number of words as well as one suffix that can be used to intensify the meaning of other words. Intensifiers are not the same thing as comparatives, superlatives, or augmentatives.

Negation

No - you don't want to miss this lesson. Learn how to make Spanish statements and questions negative.

Plurals

A quick lesson on making Spanish nouns and adjectives plural, followed by a quiz.

Possession

There are three ways to express possession in Spanish: possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns, and the possessive de.