Anoche: last night in Spanish
A conversation about the previous night calls for anoche, a compact Spanish time word for completed events.
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Spanish: Adverbs for time, manner and degree
Spanish: Specify when, how often, how or to what degree something happens, with examples of natural adverb placement.
Adventure journal
Spanish: Adverbs for time, manner and degree
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Mucho: doing something a lot
A lot of reading or walking: Spanish mucho describes the amount of an action and has agreeing forms before nouns.
Read and practiseTodavía: still and not yet
Use todavía to describe continuing situations and events that have not happened yet in Spanish.
Read and practiseCasi: almost and nearly
Use casi for quantities, times and events that approach a limit without fully reaching it.
Read and practiseAntes: before and earlier
Learn antes for an earlier time and antes de before a noun or infinitive in Spanish.
Read and practiseYa: already and not yet
Learn ya for a completed action or existing situation and contrast it with todavía no.
Read and practiseQuizá: perhaps and possibility
Learn quizá and quizás for an uncertain possibility and practice their spelling in context.
Read and practiseAbajo: down and downstairs
Learn abajo for a lower location or downward direction and use de abajo to identify a lower object.
Read and practiseDetrás: behind something
Learn detrás and detrás de to locate something at the back of a named or understood reference.
Read and practiseTampoco: neither and not either
Learn tampoco to agree with a negative statement and place it correctly before or after a verb.
Read and practiseMal: badly and unwell
Learn the adverb mal to describe actions done badly, faulty devices and feeling unwell.
Read and practiseAdemás: adding information
Learn además and además de to add information, activities or items in a sentence.
Read and practiseLuego: then and later
Learn luego to order actions and refer to a later conversation or future need.
Read and practiseAlrededor: around and approximately
Learn alrededor and alrededor de for positions around a place and approximate amounts.
Read and practisePoco: doing little
A short night or a quiet meeting can call for poco; see how it differs from a word describing a small number of things.
Read and practiseDeprisa: quickly and at high speed
Learn deprisa to describe quick actions and ask someone to slow down when speech is too fast.
Read and practiseQuite and enough: Spanish degree
A warm soup, a long walk or enough chairs: express degree and quantity while noticing noun agreement.
Read and practiseEntonces: then and therefore
Learn entonces to refer to a past time, introduce a consequence or sequence actions.
Read and practiseToo much degree in Spanish
A heavy backpack or a late arrival can cross a limit: express excess before adjectives and adverbs.
Read and practiseAsí: like this or in this way
Learn así to describe a manner or link an action to a result in everyday Spanish.
Read and practiseOnly: limiting a statement in Spanish
One person, one object or one action: place the limiting adverb near the part you want to single out.
Read and practiseAhí: there at an indicated place
Learn ahí to point to a place in conversation and contrast it with aquí and fuera.
Read and practiseUsually in Spanish: expressing a general habit
Most days follow a pattern: describe what normally happens while leaving room for occasional exceptions.
Read and practiseDelante: in front
Learn delante to describe a position in front of a person, building or other reference point.
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