How Spanish works
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Woordenschat
- fonemaphoneme
- morfemamorpheme
- sintaxissyntax
- semánticasemantics
- pragmáticapragmatics
- declinacióndeclension
- flexióninflection
- derivaciónderivation
- composicióncompounding
- concordanciaagreement
- régimen verbalverbal government
- complementocomplement
- sintagmaphrase / syntagm
- proposiciónclause
How Spanish Works
Spanish has a fascinating linguistic structure that sets it apart from other Romance languages:
- Pro-drop language: subject pronouns can be omitted because verb conjugation identifies the person (como = I eat, without needing yo)
- Clitic doubling: Spanish often doubles the complement with a pronoun (A María le gusta — the indirect object is marked twice)
- Subjunctive system: more alive than in most languages, Spanish distinguishes present, imperfect, pluperfect, and future subjunctive, used daily
- Gender and number agreement: concordancia extends to articles, adjectives, pronouns, and participles with strict enforcement
- Flexible word order: thanks to residual case marking and clitics, Spanish allows SVO, OVS, and VSO depending on emphasis
- Rich morphology: derivation (suffixes like -ción, -miento, -oso) and compounding (limpiaparabrisas) are highly productive
- Verbal government: prepositions governed by verbs (pensar en, soñar con) often differ from English equivalents
Uitdrukkingen
- Desde el punto de vista sintácticoFrom a syntactic standpoint
- En términos morfológicosIn morphological terms
- Rige la preposición 'de'It governs the preposition 'de'
- Se trata de un sintagma nominalIt is a noun phrase
- La concordancia exige el pluralAgreement requires the plural
- Funciona como complemento directoIt functions as a direct object
- El sujeto está elididoThe subject is elided
Veelgemaakte fouten
La sintaxis del español es libreLa sintaxis del español es flexibleWord order is not free but flexible: some positions are obligatory (clitics, determiners)
El morfema es una palabraEl morfema es la unidad mínima con significadoA morpheme is not a word; it is the smallest meaningful unit (e.g., -s marks plural)
El sintagma es una oraciónEl sintagma es un grupo de palabras con núcleoA syntagm is a syntactic group with a head, not a full sentence
Pensar de algoPensar en algoThe verbal government of 'pensar' requires 'en', not 'de' (false friend with English 'think of')
La pragmática estudia la gramáticaLa pragmática estudia el uso del lenguaje en contextoPragmatics studies language use in context, not grammatical rules
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