Mis últimas vacaciones: prenominal adjectives, preterite questions
Learning outcomes
I can use prenominal adjectives and preterite questions to ask and answer about past holidays in Spanish.
I can pronounce [gue] and [que].
Mis últimas vacaciones: prenominal adjectives, preterite questions
Learning outcomes
I can use prenominal adjectives and preterite questions to ask and answer about past holidays in Spanish.
I can pronounce [gue] and [que].
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Key learning points
- In questions, to say 'a', 'an' or ‘any’ before masc. sing. nouns use ‘algún’ and 'algunos' before masc. pl. nouns.
- In questions, to say 'a', 'an' or ‘any’ before fem. sing. nouns use ‘alguna’ and 'algunas' before fem. pl nouns.
- Some adjectives can go before the noun. These are called 'prenominal adjectives'.
- Prenominal adjectives 'primero', 'tercero', 'bueno', 'malo' and 'alguno' come before the noun and lose the -o ending.
- Verbs ending in '-car', 'gar' or '-zar' have a spelling change in 1st person singular in the PAST preterite.
Keywords
Preterite - a tense used for events completed in the past
Prenominal adjective - an adjective that appears before a noun
Algún - a word meaning 'a', 'an' or 'any' in questions
Alguna - a word meaning 'a', 'an' or 'any' in questions
Common misconception
Adjectives in Spanish only ever appear after the noun.
Most adjectives in Spanish appear after the noun. However, some are used before it. These are called prenominal adjectives.
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