Spanish words of the week: pedido or pedida?
Today another pair of similar-looking Spanish words are here just asking to have their different uses clarified. These are pedido … Continued
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Spanish word of the week: liado
Liado is the past participle of the verb ‘liar’ (meaning ‘to tie up’ or ‘to wrap up’) but, like tied up, it’s commonly used as an adjective in informal figurative senses.
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Spanish words of the week: diestro or diestra?
This week we’re looking at the most common uses of Spanish words diestro and diestra.
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Learning Spanish: How the language is evolving
Spanish has traditionally used the masculine plural as a default to refer to mixed groups of males and females. Even if there are 999 females in a group and one male, masculine plural takes precedence. This is because, while the masculine plural form may refer just to males, down the centuries it has also been used to denote all the members in the category.
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Spanish words of the week: cerámica or cerámico?
It’s another occasion to go pottering about among some similar-looking Spanish words, unearthing how they are typically used and cracking apart the differences between them and some other terms. Our main subjects today are cerámica and cerámico.
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Spanish words of the week: revuelta or revuelto?
Sometimes potentially confusable Spanish nouns seem intent on scrambling heads or causing a riot. To find out if that’s the case with ‘revuelta’ and ‘revuelto’, read on.
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Spanish words of the week: retirada or retirado?
Time to celebrate two more similar-looking Spanish words, to examine how they are used and, in passing, to prise apart some synonyms. Today’s pair are ‘retirada’ and ‘retirado’.
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Spanish words of the week: costo, coste or costa?
Today we’re back counting up and setting out the differences in usage between more similar-looking Spanish nouns, and this time it’s a trio: costo, coste and costa.
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Spanish words of the week: óptica or óptico?
It’s that time of the week when we put the commonest uses of similar-looking Spanish words under the microscope. Today it’s the turn of óptica and óptico.
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