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This study guide is a collection of the most important topics concerning Spanish grammar. You'll learn about the different parts of speech (e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs etc.), as well as other import (…)

In Spanish, the personal pronouns, e.g. yo (‘I’), and tú (‘you’), have special forms when they follow prepositions, i.e. words like para (‘for’), con (‘with’), de (‘of’). For example, the 1st person s (…)

An indirect object (IO) is, roughly speaking, the person or thing that the action of the sentence is being performed for or to, e.g.: ‘He told me a lie’ (the action of lying is being performed for ‘me (…)

The present participle is also sometimes called the gerund (gerundio in Spanish). We will use both of these terms in the same meaning on this page. The present participle in Spanish is formed with eit (…)

A direct object (DO) is, roughly speaking, the person or thing that is acted on in a sentence (e.g. ‘she loved him’ , ‘he crashed the car ’). You can find a direct object in the sentence by asking ‘wh (…)

Subject pronouns are personal pronouns that function as the subject of a sentence - i.e. roughly speaking the person carrying out an action, having a feeling, or having a certain characteristic: They (…)

Pronouns make up a small part of speech in both English and Spanish that, roughly speaking, are used instead of nouns (e.g. ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘we’, ‘them’, ‘that’). We primarily use pronouns to avoid namin (…)

In both English and Spanish, the main use of the past progressive is to describe an action that was happening in the past or that someone was doing: You were running → Estabas corriendo Here, ‘were ru (…)

The present progressive is the most commonly used progressive tense in both English and Spanish, and it generally refers to an action in the present that is ongoing right now, e.g.: I am watching TV → (…)

Both English and Spanish verbs have a present tense, and they are used in similar ways. The present tense can express many things and is used in many contexts, and we will go through its main uses her (…)