Ch 16 · Lesson 9Spanish · Chapter 16 · Lesson 9 · Grammar primer
Nominalisation languages
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
Spanish has no separate word for 'the Spanish language'
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It recycles the adjective instead. agrees with a person in , but freeze it in the masculine singular and the same word becomes the noun for the language: . , , , and all do the same double duty.
After
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, , - the article usually drops directly after , , , and , and after or . Even there it is optional rather than banned ( is just less usual). Everywhere else, including as the subject of a sentence, the article comes straight back: .
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