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Language - Spanish
9th Grade
09/16/2013

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Term
Cognate(congnato)
Definition
a word related to one in another language.
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verb(verbo)
Definition
the part of speech that expresses existence ,action , or occurrence in most languages ex. play ,touch , jump ,run ,read ,and learn.
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Noun ( sustantivo)
Definition
person , place , or thing . In Spanish , nouns come before adjectives most often.
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pronoun(pronombre)
Definition
the part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for , previously specified , or understood from the context. Ex. I , you , he , she , all , and they
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adjective(adjetivo)
Definition
t modifies (describes) a noun. In Spanish adjectives come after nouns most often , unlike English .EX. green , tall , pretty , and smart
Term
conjugate ( conjugar)
Definition
to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”
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infinitive(infinitive)
Definition
a verb form found in many languages that functions as a noun or is used with auxiliary verbs, and that names the action or state without specifying the subject, as French venir “to come,” Latin esse “to be,” fuisse “to have been.”
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article(articulo)
Definition
small words that are linked to nouns and that typically have a grammatical function identifying the noun as a noun.
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