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Lisa Beck
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17k views

What is the difference between "abajo," "debajo," and "bajo?"

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6 answers
15k views

How is “pea” translated into Spanish?

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5 answers
4k views

What is the difference between "catedrático," "docente," "maestro," and "profesor?"

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2 answers
3k views

Is the phrase "Me siento mal" grammatically correct in Spanish?

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3 answers
5k views

Is it possible to refer to a wife as "una marida?"

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2 answers
787 views

Does Spanish use parenthetical pluralization?

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3 answers
10k views

Why has "fox" been translated as "zorra" in Spanish versions of Aesop's fables?

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3 answers
972 views

How is “talk past each other” translated into Spanish?

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4 answers
2k views

If "mañana" is feminine, why do I see so many more instances of "mañana sería bueno" than "mañana sería buena"?

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2 answers
1k views

What is the difference between "mobiliario" and "mueble(s)"?

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2k views

What is the difference between "regresar," "volver," and "retornar"?

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503 views

In a declarative statement, why would you put a subject pronoun at the end of a sentence or verb phrase?

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1 answer
108 views

What is the difference between "se ven afectados" and "están afectados"?

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2 answers
131 views

How do you say "build it up too much" in Spanish?

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1 answer
4k views

How do you say "woke" in Spanish?

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398 views

Is “vigésimo tercera” considered an acceptable alternative to “vigésima tercera”?

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1k views

What percentage of nouns ending in -a are masculine and what percentage of nouns ending in -o are feminine?

7 votes
4 answers
4k views

Do "tal" and "tan" both mean "such"?

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1 answer
433 views

What is the difference between "tirada" and "difusión" and can you use "circulación" or "distribución" for either or both?

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1 answer
3k views

What are the differences between the military ranks of the Spanish military and those of Latin America and how do they compare to those of the U.S.?

6 votes
1 answer
206 views

Is there any difference in meaning between the two past participles for the three verbs that the Real Academia Española authorizes usage for?

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3 answers
343 views

How do you specify/emphasize gender with third person reflexive verbs?

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3 answers
385 views

Are there any rules governing when you can and cannot use a present tense form of "ser" + a past participle to form a passive sentence?

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2 answers
220 views

What were the uses of the now obsolete/rare second person affirmative imperative of "haber" (hé)?

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3 answers
496 views

How is "layout and design" translated into Spanish?

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1 answer
456 views

What's the difference between the various context dictionaries available for Spanish (e.g., Tatoeba, Reverso, Linguee, ...)?

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3 answers
1k views

How does one say "one of the artists" if the one referred to is female and the group of artists is either an all female group or a mixed group?

6 votes
1 answer
436 views

Why do some write an "a" after the verb "convocar" and others omit it?

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3 answers
2k views

Is "indígeno" a word in Spanish and, if so, how does it differ from "autóctono"?

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2 answers
245 views

Is "tal cosas" accepted as standard Spanish?