spanish
part of speech
adjective (Spanish); noun (Spanish, the language; the Spanish, the people)
meaning for a pupil
1) Spanish means from Spain or to do with Spain, its people or culture. tree →
2) Spanish is the language spoken in Spain and in most countries of Central and South America, like Mexico and Argentina. tree →
3) The Spanish are the people of Spain. tree →
4) The Spanish Main was the old name for the Caribbean coast of Central and South America, which was ruled by Spain and was a haunt of pirates. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah note compares Hebrew letters to Spanish sounds. Jewish scholars of Spain, the Sephardim, were important in studying Hebrew grammar. In the primary lessons: In school many pupils learn Spanish as a foreign language, especially in the USA, where many people speak it at home. In geography, Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world. In history, Spanish explorers sailed to the Americas. Phrases: «speak Spanish», «Spanish class», «Spanish omelette», «a Spanish guitar».
examples
- The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.] Taw-Thaw. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- We are learning Spanish at school. tree →
- «Hola» means «hello» in Spanish. tree →
- My friend's family speaks Spanish at home. tree →
- Spanish is spoken in Mexico, Spain and Argentina. tree →
- We had a Spanish omelette for tea. tree →
- The Spanish flag is red and yellow. tree →
- My aunt plays the Spanish guitar. tree →
- Paella is a famous Spanish dish. tree →
- Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main. tree →
note
Always write it with a capital S: «Spanish», because it comes from the name of a country (Spain). A person from Spain is «a Spaniard» or «a Spanish person». Not everyone who speaks Spanish is from Spain; most Spanish speakers live in the Americas.
In the corpora
- At football camp Connor is paired with Mateo, who only speaks Spanish.
- In Los Angeles, Abuela (Spanish for grandma) lives with Mateo's family and cooks every day.
- Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese while their neighbours speak Spanish?
- Real people of those centuries lived through colder winters, failed harvests and hurricanes that sank many Spanish treasure ships.
- English and Mandarin Chinese are the two languages with the most speakers in total, and Hindi and Spanish come next.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spanish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.