tense - Spanish has a rich tense system, having present, preterite (past), imperfect (akin to past frequentative), pluperfect (a verb tense that is used to refer to something that occurred earlier than the time being considered, when the time being considered is in the past), future.voice - active and passive: the difference between 'something is doing' and 'something is being done'.aspect - perfective, progressive, imperfective, which all connect the verb to the flow of time, that is, they indicate whether an action is occuring at the time, used to occur frequently, or occurred generally.number - (are we talking about a single person like in 'ele/ela hace' - 'he/she does', or many: 'eles/elas hacen' - 'they do').'eu hago' - 'I do', or 'ele/ela hace' - 'he/she does')
person - (the verb changes depending on the person it is referring to, e.g.In Spanish, you can conjugate verbs by these major factors: the infinitive - ser, estar, hablar, etc.In Spanish, you usually have to have a couple of basic forms of the verb to work out its other forms. Spanish conjugation is a procedure in which Spanish verbs are changed to match with various other features of the phrase and its context. Being a Romance language, it shares a lot of its pronunciation with other Romance languages, such as Italian or Catalan, although Spanish does have a distinct sound to it. Spanish is written in the Latin alphabet, and it has only a few of its own diacritic marks, such as áor ü, its own distinct letter ñ, and some of its own punctuation marks, such as ¿and ¡. This should be contrasted with multiple other languages and dialects spoken in Spain and elsewhere in the Hispanophone world, including Andalusian (spoken in Southern Spain, and known for its emission of the consonants 'd' and 'r', dropping of final consonants and aspiration of final 's'), Murcian (spoken in the Southeastern Spain), Catalan (a different language spoken in Northern Spain and Andorra), Galiciain (a language spoken North of Portugal and influenced significantly by both Portuguese and Spanish) and others, Canarian and Gibraltarian Spanish (the latter called Llanito and influenced by both Spanish and English), many forms and variations of Spanish spoken in Central and Southern America (including Rioplatense Spanish spoken between Argentina and Uruguay or Carribean Spanish spoken in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominician Republic and other places), Equatoguinean Spanish (the only official form of Spanish spoken in the continent of Africa), and others. The language was originally spoken in the Castile region of Spain and its standard dialect is therefore known as Castilian Spanish (castellano). Spanish is a language, which has been originally spoken in the current territory of Spain, and now through the process of Spanish colonisation and related expansion has spread to most of South America, with the notable exceptions of Brazil French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname.
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