10 Differences Between Spanish and English

Adjectives come after the noun

Possessive nouns don’t exist in Spanish

In Spanish, the subject of a sentence often doesn’t have to be stated

In Spanish, the verb “to have” is often used to express feeling

There are fewer prepositions in Spanish

Spelling is much easier in Spanish

Spanish nouns have a gender

Capitalization and punctuation is slightly different in Spanish

Negation is much simpler in Spanish

The word “it” is often omitted

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All nouns are considered to be either masculine or feminine, and the articles “the,” el (masculine) or la (feminine), will often accompany the noun to demonstrate which gender the noun is.

In Spanish the adjective generally comes after the noun instead of before. For example: "Mi casa blanca".

In English, there is only punctuation at the end of a sentence, while in Spanish when asking a question or expressing excitement, punctuation is placed at both the beginning and the end of the sentence.

In Spanish, spelling a word is so simple that it can almost always be accomplished just by sounding it out. While in English, letters can sound long, short or even silent

The word "it" it is used these contexts every day in English, while in Spanish it’s found much less often. Thanks to that exists some subjects are inferred through the conjugated verb.

In English, prepositions are used to determine the exact location in time and space of an object. While, in Spanish one preposition is enough to make sense.

I have 20 yearsd old is a way for a person to express their age in Spanish. While in English is used verb be " I´m 20 years old.

In Spanish sometimes the tacit subject is not used at the beginning of sentences and they are understandable while in English it is used.

Instead of adding an apostrophe and s after the noun in Spanish only the word "de" is used.

The variety of prefixes—like “non-,” “un-,” “dis-,” “in-“—and can be replace in Spanish by the word "no".

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