Grammar - Spanish-English dictionary

Grammar

Alphabet and pronunciationNounsAdjectivesArticleDefinite articleIndefinite articlePronounsPersonal pronounsReflexive pronounsPossessive pronouns/adjectivesInterrogative pronounsRelative pronounsNegative pronouns/adjectivesDemonstrative pronounsIndefinite pronounsNumeralsCardinal numbersOrdinal numbersExpressing repetition and multiplicationArithemtic operationsTelling the timeVerbsThe indicativePresent tensePast tenseFuture tensesThe subjunctiveThe conditionalThe imperativePast participleGerundiumAdverbsList of irregular verbs

1 Alphabet and pronunciation

Pronunciation of Spanish alphabet

a	[a]	h	[atʃe]	ñ	[eɲe]	u	[u]
b	[be]	i	[i]	o	[o]	v	[ube]
c	[θe]	j	[xota]	p	[pe]	w	[ube doble]
d	[de]	k	[ka]	q	[ku]	x	[ekis]
e	[e]	l	[ele]	r	[eɾe]	y	[i gɾjega]
f	[efe]	m	[eme]	s	[ese]	z	[θeta]
g	[xe]	n	[ene]	t	[te]

Pronunciation of the consonants and phone groups

b, v at the beginning and after m,n [b],	h is not pronounced
b, v within a word [β]	j [x]
c [k], before e,i [θ]	ll pronounced as y in yes
ch [tʃ]	ñ [ɲ]
d at the end and between vowels [ð]	z [θ]
g [g], before e,i [x]

güe [gwe]	güi [gwi]	gua [gwa]	que [ke]
gue [ge]	gui [gi]	guo [gwo]	qui [ki]

Pronunciation of special characters

Characters used for the phonetic transcription are pronounced as follows

[β]	a soft b pronounced without the lips touching
[ð]	a soft d, the tongue lightly touches the edge of upper incisors
[θ]	s pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth
[w]	a rounded u (as in wood) connected to the following vowel

The acute accent over a vowel represents word stress not the vowel length.