Spanish Help... prepositions, qualifying adjectives, irregular present tense?

Question

Summer is almost over; school starts in 2 days, and I'm skipping Spanish 2 to go to Spanish 3. Therefore, in these last 5 days, I've been trying to cram a year's worth of Spanish grammar and vocab into my head, so naturally, I have a few questions.

1. What are 'qualifying adjectives'?

2. What is 'irregular present tense'?

3. Can you list some prepositions?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Prepositions are easy. Some of them are de (of) and entre (among, through). If you think of a phrase such as "in the floor", the word hinting location is the preposition (under, over, at, in, etc.).

Irregular present tense. Some verbs, such as "hacer" (to do) and "decir" (to say) are like this.

For example, I'll show you some "yo" forms for certain irregular present tenses.

conducer (to conduct) - conduzco (I conduct)

hacer (to do) - hago (I do)

decir (to say) - digo (I say)

tener (to have) - tengo (I have)

escoger - escojo

conocer (to meet/know) - conozco (I meet/know)

Most of the time with Spanish regular verbs, all you have to do is take out the "-ar", "-er", or "-ir" and add an ending to conjugate it. However, for the irregular verbs, you have to change them up a little bit.

Qualifying adjectives are those that describe the noun itself. For example, in the phrase, "la flor roja" means "the red flower". "Roja" (red, feminine form) is the qualifying adjective, referring to the fact that the flower is red.

Other ones that are considered "qualifying" are those that refer to qualities, such as "difficult", "clean", or comparison, such as "more difficult than", "less clear than", etc.

Hope that helps. I'm basically in the same predicament as you (Spanish I going to Spanish IV). Good luck!