Effeminate-Spanish-Greek-WORDS, :S AHHHH!!!!

¡Hola, pequeñajos!
I've seen you commiting this mistake that is sooo normal and so cute ;) And it happens that English speaking people have already a real problem with the gendre of words! ...

...So I am sure you'll love this LITTLE SURPRISE: Some words in Spanish, although finishing with -MA, are masculine!!! ¡¡¡FIESTAAA!!!

LET'S SEE HOW I SAY THIS WITHOUT SOUNDING AWFULLY BORING AND ARROGANT, hahaha! (although it is obvious I have googled it ;) :P 

... To simplify, this happens because these words originally come from a neuter word from ancient Greek, but during the asimilation of the words into Spanish, through Latin of course, they became masculine, as we don't have the neuter gendre. I don't know-don't ask why masculine and not femenine :P!!! We could do a research, it seems very interesting ;)

Don't worry, I won't give you a long list, so don't be scared ;). Also you have these same words in many occidental languages, even in English, so you won't find them odd at all:

EL PROBLEMA
EL TEMA
EL POEMA / EL POETA
EL ESQUEMA
EL PANORAMA
EL DRAMA
EL ENIGMA
EL DILEMA
...

I really hope you have the opportunity to use them! 
Hoping you find this interesting enough to read... I must say goodbye and until the next post!

¡Un besote!

Inma.

"MISMO", that strange man...

¿Qué crees que significa"mismo"? (What do you think 'mismo' means?)

"Mismo" is an adjective that means "the same thing" or "exactly like something, identical".
As you will see, "mismo" can be accompanied by the pronoun "LO" and the articles "EL", "LA", "LOS" or "LAS".









EXAMPLES: 

The same kind of women 
El mismo tipo de mujeres         

The same tastes              
Los mismos gustos  

The same people                 
La misma gente          
                                                                                                            
The same options
Las mismas opciones

We can remove the noun we are talking about so we don't have to repeat it the following times: 
A: -¿Estás en el mismo piso? (Are you in the same flat?)
B: - Sí, en el mismo. (Yes, in the same one)               
We just need to remove the noun and you'll have it!

But what about "LO MISMO"?
When we are not talking about a concrete thing, like above, but about situations, problems, meanings, abstract things, generic things, a group of varied things, etc. we use: 
LO MISMO (Lo = pronoun that replaces a "thing" --> la misma COSA)

- Quiero una hamburguesa con patatas fritas 
- Yo quiero lo mismo, por favor.                        

- No me gusta Juan, es demasiado arrogante.

- Sí, yo pienso exactamente lo mismo.

- Inma, ¿qué significan "empezar" y "comenzar"?
- Los dos significan lo mismo: to start.

SO...

The same one = EL/LA/LOS/LAS  MISMO/A/OS/AS

 vs.

The same thing/ the same = LO MISMO

P.S. "Mismo" can be used next to a personal pronoun and some adverbs to make its meaning stronger, to emphasize: Ej/ I will do it myself = Lo haré yo MISMA. 
                                         Ej/ In that very moment = En ese MISMO momento.
P.S.2 Remind me of talking about "IGUAL" at some point. This adverb can have some common uses with "mismo".


I hope I made that clear! if any doubts appear... 
contact me and I'll do my best!
¡Un beso y feliz día!


Inma.

A VERB FOR TODAY!

Let's start with............ PREFERIR!
You must be happy because it is really similar to English: to PREFER!!! 
So you have no excuse ;)


Subject + PREFERIR + NOUN (with people, as usual: a + person* /name of a person)
Subject + PREFERIR + VERB in INFINITIVE

Ej. Prefiero la falda blanca / Prefiero a los chicos rubios /Prefiero a Carmen / Te prefiero (a ti) .
Ej. Prefiero ir al cine / Prefiero comer lentejas.

But PAY ATTENTION! Have you noticed that in quite many verbs a vowel changes into a diptong in the present tense, to make it even more difficult?? =P   

Like that "e" in: QUERER --> Yo quiero / EMPEZAR --> Yo empiezo (*except with NOSOTROS and VOSOTROS, that are regular).

So then we have:

Yo PREFIERO
Tú PREFIERES
Él/Ella PREFIERE
Nosotros PREFERIMOS
Vosotros PREFERÍS
Ellos PREFIEREN

I hope you liked it and that you are able to use it from now on.

¡¡Un besazo!! ;)

x

Inma.