Monday, January 7, 2008

Spanish Alphabets and Ordinals

Learning Ordinals is one of the easiest things to learn in Spanish. Ordinals are basically numbers in adjective form. For eg: One in English is a number and first is the ordinal. Here are the most commonly used first ten ordinals:

  • First: primero
  • Second: segundo
  • Third: tercero
  • Fourth: cuarto
  • Fifth: quinto
  • Sixth: sexto
  • Seventh: séptimo, sétimo
  • Eighth: octavo
  • Ninth: noveno
  • Tenth: décimo

Knowing alphabets in English makes it all the more easy to learn alphabets in Spanish. Spanish alphabets have a similarity with alphabets of western European languages including English. These are the alphabets in Spanish with their pronounications.

a - a

h - ache

n - ene

t - te

b - be

i - i

ñ - eñe

u - u

c - ce

j - jota

o - o

v - uve

d - de

k - ca

p - pe

w - uve doble

e - e

l - ele

q - cu

x - equis

f - efe

ll - elle

r - erre

y - i griega

g - ge

m - eme

s - ese

z - ceta

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