User Alfredo Osorio - Spanish Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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What's the “ísimo” in the following words?

aug 16 at 19:42 Sergio Romero 2,320

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What's the meaning of the expression “nada que ver”?

modismos meanings-definitions

dec 13 at 23:22 Pancho 31

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¿Es correcto abreviar “visto bueno ” como “VoBo.”?

untagged

aug 8 at 16:28 JoulSauron♦ 3,646

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Why “¿Cómo te llamas?” means “¿Cuál es tu nombre?”?

seleccion-de-palabras

jan 17 '12 at 19:30 Ethan Furman 131

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Difference between “mas” and “más”

seleccion-de-palabras word-usage

feb 22 '12 at 19:08 Sergio Cinos 845

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Different words for “beer”

regional-differences vocabulario

jan 2 '12 at 15:03 Community♦ 1

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Origin of the mexican expression “güey/buey”

etimologia jerga mexico

dec 1 '11 at 12:49 Joze♦ 3,450

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Why is the “X” in México and Texas pronunced as the letter “J”?

regional-differences pronunciacion ortografia

dec 17 at 17:34 Chewie 1,144

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Difference between “favor de” and “por favor”

word-usage

jan 11 '12 at 20:38 leonbloy 2,639

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What's the meaning of “me choca” expression?

coloquialismos

jan 23 '12 at 19:08 Alfredo Osorio 4,640

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What's the meaning of “Te la bañaste” expression?

coloquialismos

jan 19 '12 at 15:57 Javi 5,235

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“vaso de agua” or “vaso con agua”? Which is correct?

seleccion-de-palabras word-usage preposiciones

mar 7 '12 at 15:10 Alfredo Osorio 4,640

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¿Se debe decir jefe o jefa al referirse a una persona de sexo femenino?

word-usage

jan 22 at 4:32 Fran 926

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Difference between “está” and “esta” or “esté” and “este”?

seleccion-de-palabras word-usage copulas diacritics deixis

feb 17 '12 at 12:57 hippietrail 2,420

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¿Qué es “inventar el hilo negro”?

word-usage

sep 12 at 19:24 Sergio Romero 2,320

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Las palabras definidas como genero ambiguo como “internet” ¿se deben utilizar con artículo femenino o masculino?

genero

jul 6 at 8:38 cgc 555

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Why does the preterite of “traducir” transform into “tradujo”?

etimologia conjugacion verb-forms preterite irregular-forms

dec 17 '11 at 13:23 krubo 468

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Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”?

ortografia pronunciacion

jan 10 '12 at 12:08 pferor 944

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What's the difference between “debe de” y “debe”?

word-usage verbos sintaxis preposiciones

jan 4 '12 at 11:40 Alenanno 2,111

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¿Cómo se deben pronunciar las palabras que empiezan con “hue”?

pronunciacion phonology diptongos

jun 7 '12 at 10:00 JoulSauron♦ 3,646

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What's the meaning of the -azo suffix?

word-usage sufijos

dec 13 '11 at 20:05 Gonzalo Medina 4,334

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Rules applied to the separation of syllables

silabas

dec 8 '11 at 16:09 Alenanno 2,111

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When is “al” not interchangeable with “a el”?

word-usage

may 10 '12 at 20:45 Flimzy♦ 3,789

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What's the meaning of the Mexican expression “se te va el avión”?

seleccion-de-palabras modismos jerga mexico meaning

feb 29 '12 at 15:40 darkajax 1,187

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Appropriate way to answer a negative yes/no question

preguntas

jan 6 '12 at 3:38 César 1,240

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What's the function of the letter h?

etimologia

dec 23 '11 at 23:12 Michael Wolf 515

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Why “camarada” means friend?

regional-differences palabras-raras

dec 28 '11 at 19:01 Icarus 1,865

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What's the plural of “suéter”?

seleccion-de-palabras plurales nouns loanwords vocabulario

feb 28 '12 at 9:10 Community♦ 1

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What is the correct way to say the days of a month?

seleccion-de-palabras

feb 26 '12 at 2:16 ailnlv 46

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Why does “toalla” sound like “tualla”?

pronunciacion phonology vocales diptongos

mar 1 '12 at 6:16 jrdioko 5,884

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