Family Celebrations (AQA GCSE Spanish): Flashcards
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Define la boda.
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Define la boda.
La boda means wedding.
Define el cumpleaños.
El cumpleaños means birthday.
Define la Navidad.
La Navidad means Christmas.
Define el disfraz.
El disfraz means costume / fancy dress.
Define los fuegos artificiales.
Los fuegos artificiales means fireworks.
¿Qué significa el verbo celebrar?
The verb celebrar means to celebrate.
¿Cómo se dice to organise en español?
To organise is organizar in Spanish.
¿Qué significa el verbo regalar?
The verb regalar means to give (as a gift).
Mis padres se en la playa.
Mis padres se prometieron en la playa. (My parents got engaged on the beach.)
Nos un montón en la boda.
Nos divertimos un montón en la boda. (We enjoyed ourselves a lot at the wedding.)
True or False?
The noun cariño means 'affection / love'.
True.
Cariño (m) means affection / love.
True or False?
Cumpleaños is a feminine noun.
False.
Cumpleaños is masculine: el cumpleaños.
Define el imperfecto (the imperfect tense).
The imperfect tense (el imperfecto) describes habitual actions or ongoing situations in the past ('used to [verb]' / 'was [verb]-ing').
What is the yo imperfect form of the -AR verb hablar?
The yo imperfect form of hablar is hablaba.
What is the nosotros/as imperfect form of hablar?
The nosotros/as imperfect form of hablar is hablábamos.
De niño, mi cumpleaños con mis primos.
De niño, celebraba mi cumpleaños con mis primos. (As a child, I used to celebrate my birthday with my cousins.)
Mis abuelos tango en todas las bodas.
Mis abuelos bailaban tango en todas las bodas. (My grandparents used to dance the tango at all the weddings.)
True or False?
The imperfect tense is used for a single, completed past action.
False.
The imperfect describes repeated or habitual past actions; a single completed action uses the preterite (e.g. anoche cenamos a las siete).
Define a direct object pronoun in Spanish.
A direct object pronoun replaces the noun that directly receives the action: lo, la, los, las (him, her, it, them).
In Lo compré, what does lo replace?
In Lo compré ('I bought it'), lo replaces un regalo (masculine singular).
What do the indirect object pronouns le and les mean?
Le and les mean (to/for) him, her, it, them — they indicate the recipient of the action.
Mi padre me regaló un reloj. dio ayer.
Mi padre me regaló un reloj. Me lo dio ayer. (He gave it to me yesterday.)
True or False?
With a conjugated verb + infinitive, the pronoun can attach to the end of the infinitive.
True.
You can say Lo puedo mirar or attach it: Puedo mirarlo ('I can look at it').
Which Spanish sound appears in both mañana and cumpleaños?
Both words contain the [ñ] sound.
Tienes que a tu abuela en la calle.
Tienes que llamar a tu abuela en la calle. (This practises the [ll] sound.)
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