An Easy Introduction to Spanish Conversation

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D. Appleton, 1898
 

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Página 35 - Uno Dos Tres Cuatro Cinco Seis Siete Ocho Nueve Diez Once Doce Trece Catorce Quince Diez y seis Diez y siete Diez y ocho Diez y nueve Veinte...
Página 14 - The grave accent ( v ) upon a vowel in the following terminations, points out the syllable on which the stress of the voice is laid, but over which the mark of it must not be set. The acute accent ( ' ) marks the syllable on which the stress of the voice lays, and over which the accent is to be written. When there is no mark of an accent in the termination, the syllable that precedes it is long. SIMPLE TENSES. First Conjugation. | Second Conjugation.
Página 29 - Gerund is that part of the verb that terminates in ando in the verbe of the first conjugation, and in iendo in those of the second and third ; as, publicando, (publishing,) from publicar ; prometiendo, (promising,) from prometer; asistiendo, (assisting,) from asistir. It does not admit any change of gender or number. It is translated by the English present participle, and conjugated with the verb estar, (to be ;) as, Anastasia is reading, and Maria Ann is playing on the piano. It is used also absolutely...
Página 27 - Passive impersonal verbs, and those referring to inanimate objects or things, are translated by placing the verb which is in the participle past in English, in the same person and number in which the verb to be is in the English sentence, placing the pronoun se before it ; thus, This ship was built in less than three months — Esta fragata se construyó en ménoe de tres meses, instead oí fue construida.
Página 75 - Put either red or wafer, no matter which. Have you put the date ? I believe I have; but I have not signed it. What day of the month is this ? The eighth, the tenth, the twentieth.

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