Spanish grammar guides

The grammar around the verb, explained plainly.

Reference guides for English speakers on the words that describe and compare: adjectives and adverbs. Each guide explains the rule, shows where English leads you astray, and asks you to produce the answer before you see it.

Adjectives

8-minute guide

Spanish adjectives: agreement and placement

Match adjectives to gender and number, decide whether they go before or after the noun, and spot the adjectives that change meaning when they move.

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8-minute guide

Comparatives and superlatives

Compare people and things with más, menos, and tan, form superlatives with el más, and use mejor, peor, mayor, menor, and -ísimo correctly.

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7-minute guide

Past participles as adjectives

Turn verbs into adjectives with -ado and -ido, make them agree, learn the irregular participles, and choose between estar and ser.

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6-minute guide

Todo in Spanish: all, every, and everything

Choose between todo, toda, todos, and todas, tell todos los días apart from cada día, and use todo on its own to mean everything.

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7-minute guide

Indefinite adjectives: algún, ningún, cada, and more

Talk about some, any, no, each, and several with algún, ningún, cada, varios, cierto, and otro, including the double negative.

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Adverbs

8-minute guide

Spanish adverbs: -mente, common adverbs, and placement

Build adverbs from adjectives with -mente, learn the adverbs you hear every day, and place them naturally in a sentence.

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6-minute guide

Comparing actions with adverbs

Say that someone does something faster, as well as, or better than someone else, and express "the most" with an action correctly.

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Verb lessons

Ready to work on verb forms?

Spanish Verb Master is built for the part of Spanish that takes the most repetition: producing the right verb form on demand. The verb lessons cover the preterite, the imperfect, the subjunctive, and commands, each with a free typed drill.