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Spanish Adverbs of Place, Time and Degree (aquí, todavía, muy vs mucho)

Spanish Adverbs in -mente: How to Build Them and When to Avoid Them

Spanish Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

Spanish Collocations: tomar una decisión, hacer una pregunta, cometer un error

Conjugating Spanish -ar Verbs in the Present Tense

Spanish Verb Conjugation: The Complete Rules with Examples

How to Say However, Even Though and Despite in Spanish: sin embargo, aunque, a pesar de

Demonstrative Pronouns in Spanish: Este, Ese, Aquel and the Three-Way This and That

Spanish Diminutives and Augmentatives: -ito, -illo, -ón, -azo (casita, un poquito, un hombrón)

Spanish False Friends (Part 2): molestar, recordar, soportar, pretender

Spanish Formal Commands: usted and ustedes

The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)

The Spanish Gerund (-ndo): Adverbial Uses and the Mistakes to Avoid (salió corriendo)

Gustar and Verbs Like It: Why Spanish Says the Coffee Pleases You

Hace, Desde and Desde Hace: Saying How Long and How Long Ago in Spanish

Spanish Fixed Similes: dormir como un tronco, más bueno que el pan, terco como una mula

Spanish Time and Frequency Phrases: de vez en cuando, a menudo, de repente, poco a poco

The Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive: Formation, Examples and Practice

Spanish Impersonal Verbs: hay, hace, se habla and the No-Subject Constructions

Spanish Indefinites: alguno, ninguno, alguien, nadie, algo, nada, cualquiera

The Spanish Infinitive as a Noun and After Prepositions (antes de salir, al llegar)

Spanish Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau

Spanish Irregular Verbs: The Groups Worth Learning and the Ones to Memorise

Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)

Spanish Past Participles as Adjectives and Absolute Clauses (una puerta cerrada, terminada la reunión)

The Passive se and the Impersonal se in Spanish (se venden casas, se habla español)

The Passive with ser in Spanish (fue escrito por, fueron construidas)

Spanish Perception Verbs + Infinitive or Gerund: la vi salir, lo oí cantando

The Spanish Present Perfect Subjunctive (haya hablado), with Practice

The Personal A in Spanish: Why 'Veo a María' but 'Veo la casa'

The Spanish Pluperfect Subjunctive and Conditional Perfect (hubiera hablado, habría hablado)

The Spanish Pluperfect (había hablado)

Por vs Para in Spanish: The Rules, a Chart, and a Practice Quiz

Spanish Possessive Pronouns: el mío, el tuyo, el suyo and the Long Possessives

Spanish Compound Prepositions and Tricky Choices: delante de, a pesar de, soñar con

The Spanish Present Progressive: estar + gerundio, and Why It Is Not the English -ing

The Spanish Present Subjunctive: Forms, the Opposite-Vowel Rule, and Practice

Spanish Preterite: hablé, comí, viví and the Big Irregular Group

Spanish Pronoun Order: Indirect Before Direct, and the le-to-se Rule

Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)

Spanish Proverbs (Refranes): Más vale tarde que nunca, A quien madruga Dios le ayuda

Spanish Vocabulary: Spain vs Latin America (coche vs carro, móvil vs celular, zumo vs jugo)

Saber vs Conocer: The Two Spanish Verbs for 'To Know'

Ser vs Estar: When to Use Each, with a Practice Quiz and Worksheets

Spanish Set Phrases with tener, dar, hacer, echar (tener ganas, echar de menos, hacer falta)

Spanish Subject Pronouns: yo, tú, él and Why You Usually Leave Them Out

Subjunctive vs Indicative in Spanish: Doubt, Denial and the Negation Flip

Spanish Superlatives: El Mejor, El Más, and the -ísimo Ending

Spanish Verbal Periphrases: acabar de, llevar, volver a, seguir + verb

Verbs of Becoming in Spanish: ponerse, hacerse, volverse, convertirse en, llegar a ser