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The passive is used more often in English than in Spanish. In Spanish active sentences are preferred in most cases. For example: She was bitten by the dog is most naturally expressed in Spanish as El perr...

As all Spanish nouns are classified as either masculine and feminine, I have found several ways of learning how to easily remember and be able to recognise the gender of a noun when I see it written down ...

To form the imperfect subjunctive, we take the "ellos/ellas" form of the preterite tense and remove the "-ron" ending. We then add the endings -ra -ras -ra -ramos -rais -ran or -se -se...

In the broadest sense, both 'por' and 'para' have the meaning of for, but they are used in different contexts and are not interchangeable. I find it helpful to think of it as if ‘para’ involves looking fo...

In English, less and less people use the subjunctive, so it can be hard for us to recognise when it is needed in Spanish. However, we can generally follow this rule: when there is any level of doubt or un...