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15 de Mayo accept adjective armed best better bring brother loves bueno business change clothes coffee cold congratulate Conjugation dear DIALOGO drink easy eaten eight ending English expressed feminine find First Conjugation Four frequently friend gender gentlemen GERUND Give good great gusto habia habria half happy horses hour house hubiere hundred kiss know language learn less letter letters lisped little long loved make master may arm may offend may unite money morning must noun nouns number o'clock one's onza order participle past play pleasure plural pronounced ragout same second servant set sail shall Silk stockings soon sound Spanish speak stockings storm supper syllable take tengo tenses termination thank They thing think third Thou mightst thousand dollars three time to-day to-morrow translated used verb verbs want weather wine wish woman words write your
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Page 136 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 11 - The grave accent ( v ) upon a vowel in the following terminations, points out the syllable on which the stress of the voice is laid, but over which the mark of it must not be set. The acute accent ( ' ) marks the syllable on which the stress of the voice lays, and over which the accent is to be written. When there is no mark of an accent in the termination, the syllable that precedes it is long. SIMPLE TENSES. First Conjugation. | Second Conjugation.
Page 27 - Passive impersonal verbs, and those referring to inanimate objects or things, are translated by placing the verb which is in the participle past in English, in the same person and number in which the verb to be is in the English sentence, placing the pronoun se before it ; thus, This ship was built in less than three months — Esta fragata se construyó en ménoe de tres meses, instead oí fue construida.
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Page 11 - TERMINATIONS; and estim, o fend, permit, the RADICAL LETTERS of each respectively, to which the other combinations must be added to form the various persons and tenses of a verb. All the Spanish verbs are, therefore, classed into three conjugations. Verbs ending in ar belong to the first; those in er to the second; and those in ir to the third. Obs.
Page 42 - January enero February febrero March marzo April abril May mayo June junio July julio August agosto September septiembre October octubre November noviembre December diciembre...
Page 94 - Take either red or black, no matter which. Have you put the date? I believe I have, but I have not signed it. What day of the month is this? The eighth, the tenth, the fifteenth.
Page 27 - El se arma á si mismo. These verbs terminate their present of the infinitive mood by the pronoun se, which must be suppressed in order to find out the conjugation ; thus — To approach. To be sorry. To repent. Acercarse. Dolerse. Arrepentirse. Taking off the se we here have, acercar, 1st conjugation ; doler, 2d conjugation ; and arrepentir, 3d conjugation. (80.) These verbs are conjugated by placing the pronouns me, te, se, se...