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Learn about the basic features and structures of Spanish grammar, such as word classes, inflection, and dialects. See tables of verb conjugations in different tenses and moods, with examples and explanations.
Learn about the history, influences and features of Puerto Rican Spanish, the variety of Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and elsewhere. Compare it with other Caribbean Spanish dialects and see examples of words and expressions.
Cuban Spanish is the variety of Spanish spoken in Cuba, influenced by Canary Islands, Andalusia, West Africa, and American English. It has features such as seseo, yeísmo, elision, and Afro-Cuban words.
Learn about the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region, their history, influences, and phonological characteristics. Find out which countries and islands have Caribbean Spanish as their main language or variety.
Learn about word order, the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how it varies across languages. Compare the six basic word orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS, OSV) and their distribution, flexibility, and pragmatic functions.
In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, [1] after SOV (as in Hindi and Japanese) and SVO (as in English and Mandarin Chinese).
Learn about the six official languages spoken in the Caribbean, including Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Haitian Creole and Papiamento. Find out which Caribbean islands have Spanish as their official language and how many of them are there.
Canarian Spanish is a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islanders. It has many features in common with Andalusian and Caribbean Spanish, such as seseo, yeísmo, and third-person object pronouns.