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Spanish grammar

Every Spanish grammar topic, in one place

Filter by CEFR level, search by topic, and pick the piece that fits what you are stuck on. The catalog covers the full Spanish grammar surface from the SVO baseline at A1 to the register-shifting moves at C1.

  1. Intermediate (B1-B2)

    Accent Rules

    When a Spanish word needs a written accent and when it does not: the agudas, llanas and esdrújulas rule, built on the vowel, n or s spine, plus the diphthong-breaking tilde.

  2. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Adjective Agreement

    Spanish adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun. The four endings, the invariable -e adjectives, the position rules, and the BAGS forms.

  3. Intermediate (B1-B2)

    Adjective Suffixes

    The productive Spanish adjective-forming suffixes that turn nouns and verbs into adjectives, and how spotting the ending unlocks the base word and its meaning.

  4. Advanced (C1-C2)

    Advanced grammar (C1-C2)

    Register, formality, dialectal range, the pluscuamperfecto, the future subjunctive (yes, it still exists), and the literary tenses.

  5. Intermediate (B1-B2)

    Advanced Spanish Negation

    Beyond no and nunca: how ni... ni, tampoco, ni siquiera and the sino-versus-pero distinction let you negate like a native at B1-B2.

  6. Intermediate (B1-B2)

    Advanced Spanish Relative Pronouns

    Advanced Spanish relatives beyond bare que: el que and el cual, lo que and lo cual, quien after prepositions, and cuyo for whose.