/i/
Translation
and (archaic/dialectal variant of y)
Word origin
An archaic and dialectal variant of the conjunction y ('and'), from Latin et. Older Spanish spelt the word both ways before y became standard.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- et
Examples
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The old text uses i to join words instead of y.
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In some places the letter i is used instead of y.
XVI.
The form i appears in old documents from the sixteenth century.
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Some old surnames keep the i from the original name.
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In old texts we find pairs like rey i reino.
Where this fits
Used in
Grammar articles
(99)Spanish Accent Rules: agudas, llanas, esdrújulas (café, árbol, rápido)
Spanish Adjective Agreement: Endings, Position, and the Shortened Pre-Nominal Set
Spanish Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Spanish Adverbs of Place, Time and Degree (aquí, todavía, muy vs mucho)
Spanish Articles: Definite vs Indefinite, Gender, Number, and When English Doesn't Use One
Spanish Causative Verbs: hacer, dejar, mandar + Infinitive (me hizo esperar, le hice arreglar el coche)
Spanish Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
Spanish Cleft Sentences and Emphasis: fue Pedro quien, lo que quiero es
Spanish Text Cohesion and Style: signposting, avoiding repetition, en resumen
Spanish Collocations: tomar una decisión, hacer una pregunta, cometer un error
Spanish Comparatives: más que, menos que, tan como and the Four Irregulars
Spanish Correlative Comparison: cuanto más... más, cada vez más, el doble
Spanish Compound Tenses: the Future Perfect and Past Anterior (habré hablado, hube hablado)
Spanish Conditional: the 'Would' Tense, me gustaría and Polite Requests
Conjugating Spanish -ar Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating Spanish -er Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating Spanish -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating Spanish Reflexive Verbs in the Present Tense
Spanish Verb Conjugation: The Complete Rules with Examples
How to Say Therefore, So and Because in Spanish: por lo tanto, así que, porque
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 Demonstrative Adjectives: este, ese, aquel and the Three-Way Distance Split
The Spanish Diacritic Accent: tú vs tu, sí vs si, qué vs que
Spanish Exclamations: ¡Qué bonito!, ¡Cuánta gente!, ¡Vaya día! (and the accents)
Spanish False Friends (Part 1): embarazada, actual, realizar, sensible
Spanish False Friends (Part 2): molestar, recordar, soportar, pretender
The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Spanish Future Tense: ir a + Infinitive and the Inflectional Future
The Spanish Gerund (-ndo): Adverbial Uses and the Mistakes to Avoid (salió corriendo)
Spanish Greetings and Survival Phrases: Say Something Today
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
Spanish Imperative: Affirmative Tú Commands and the Eight Irregulars
The Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive: Formation, Examples and Practice
Spanish Imperfect: hablaba, comía, vivía and Only Three Irregulars
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 Slang and Chat: decoding tío, guay, o sea, xq (the informal register)
Spanish Intensifiers and Downtoners: muy, -ísimo, super, un poco, más bien
Spanish Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
Spanish Question Words: Qué, Quién, Cómo, Dónde and the Accent That Asks
Spanish Irregular Verbs: The Groups Worth Learning and the Ones to Memorise
The Spanish Neuter lo (lo bueno, lo que, lo de)
Advanced Spanish Negation: ni, sino vs pero, tampoco, ni siquiera
Spanish Negation: no, nunca, nadie and Why Double Negatives Are Correct
Spanish Noun Gender: The -o/-a Rule, the Ending Patterns, and the Exceptions Worth Memorising
Spanish Noun Plurals: Add -s, Add -es, Swap -z for -ces, and the Nouns That Never Change
Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)
Spanish Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns: lo, la, le, se
Spanish Past Participles as Adjectives and Absolute Clauses (una puerta cerrada, terminada la reunión)
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)
Spanish Politeness: Softening Requests (¿Podría...?, ¿Te importaría...?, quisiera)
Por vs Para in Spanish: The Rules, a Chart, and a Practice Quiz
Spanish Prefixes: des-, re-, in-, pre- (deshacer, imposible, rehacer)
Spanish Prepositional Pronouns (para mí, conmigo, entre tú y yo)
Spanish Compound Prepositions and Tricky Choices: delante de, a pesar de, soñar con
Spanish Prepositions: de, a, en, con, por, para and the Two Contractions
Spanish Present Perfect: he hablado, ha vivido, hemos visto
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
Preterite vs Imperfect: How to Choose Between the Two Spanish Past Tenses
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 Reflexive Verbs: levantarse, llamarse, lavarse and the Pronoun Position
Spanish Proverbs (Refranes): Más vale tarde que nunca, A quien madruga Dios le ayuda
Spanish Regional Grammar: voseo (vos tenés), ustedes, and preterite vs perfect
Spanish Register: tu vs usted, vosotros vs ustedes (and how formal to be)
Advanced Spanish Relative Pronouns: el que, el cual, lo cual and cuyo
Spanish Relative Pronouns: que, quien, lo que, donde and cuando
Reported Questions and Commands in Spanish (me preguntó si, me dijo que viniera)
Reported Speech in Spanish: tense backshift (dice que, dijo que)
Saber vs Conocer: The Two Spanish Verbs for 'To Know'
The Spanish Accidental se (se me cayó, se me olvidó)
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)
Si Clauses in Spanish: Real and Unreal Conditions (si llueve, si tuviera, si hubiera)
Spanish Spelling Traps: b vs v, g vs j, silent h (tubo vs tuvo, gente vs jefe)
Spanish Stem-Changing Verbs: e>ie, o>ue, e>i and the Boot Pattern
Spanish Subject Pronouns: yo, tú, él and Why You Usually Leave Them Out
The Spanish Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses: Rules and Practice
Subjunctive vs Indicative in Spanish: Doubt, Denial and the Negation Flip
Spanish Subjunctive After Emotion
The Spanish Subjunctive in Relative (Adjective) Clauses, with Practice
Spanish Subjunctive Set Phrases: pase lo que pase, como si, ojalá, que tengas...
Spanish Subjunctive After Wishes
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
Verbs with Prepositions in Spanish (Régimen Preposicional): the Fixed Verb + Preposition Pairs
Spanish Word Order: SVO, Pro-Drop and the Five Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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