Trampas para nativos

Traps for Natives

Even native Spanish speakers make recurring errors:

• Dequeísmo and queísmo: adding de before que when not needed (pienso de que instead of pienso que), or omitting it when required (me alegro que instead of me alegro de que)
• Laísmo, leísmo, loísmo: confusion of object pronouns, especially in Castile (la dije instead of le dije)
• Gender of ambiguous nouns: el calor (not la calor), el azúcar (ambiguous gender, feminine accepted), la sartén (not el sartén)
• Notional agreement: matching the verb to meaning rather than grammar (la mayoría piensan instead of la mayoría piensa)
• Hypercorrection: over-correcting (bacalado instead of bacalao, by analogy with -ado)
• Common pleonasms: subir arriba, bajar abajo, salir afuera — redundancies even natives use
• Problematic accents: solo/sólo, este/éste — the RAE's newer norms cause confusion