Spanish grammar

Build sentences around what you want to mean. Explore ser and estar, tú and usted, por and para, and noun gender with articles. Each lesson connects a clear explanation with contextual examples, guided reasoning, and practice you can repeat.

Start with meaning, then choose a form

A Spanish sentence asks you to make more than a vocabulary choice. Saying where a person is and saying where an event takes place use different patterns. Addressing a listener with tú or usted changes the verb forms that follow. The useful starting point is the message: what are you saying, and to whom?

Begin with noun gender and articles to build phrases such as el libro and las manos. Study ser vs estar when describing someone or a place. Move to tú vs usted to ask questions with consistent forms of address, then por vs para to explain reasons, purposes, and recipients. Each lesson stands on its own, with examples and practice that work in your browser.

Use the examples before you test yourself

Read a model sentence, identify the decision it illustrates, then change one detail. Replace a person, place, or adjective while keeping the intended meaning. Compare your sentence with the model before moving on. If the meaning changes, explain what changed rather than memorizing a word pair without context.

Each lesson separates common mistakes from correct uses, and the challenge explains every answer choice. A wrong answer is useful when you can name the misunderstanding behind it. Practice missed questions after reading their explanations, then return later without looking at the lesson.

Connect grammar to real conversation

After the challenge, say a new sentence aloud. Describe where you are, introduce what you do, or ask someone to repeat a number using the form of address you chose. A score shows how you handled those examples; making a new sentence checks whether you can transfer the pattern.

For more examples inside the app, use Grammar Center, look up unfamiliar words in the Dictionary, and explore useful expressions in the Phrasebook. The website lessons are free to read and practice. App access and beta installation are explained separately.

Sources

• Instituto Cervantes: beginner grammar inventory
• RAE and ASALE: ser, definitions and present indicative conjugation
• RAE and ASALE: estar, definitions and present indicative conjugation
• Instituto Cervantes: En sintonía con el español, module 17 transcript
• Instituto Cervantes: Grammar inventory, B1 and B2, section 12.1
• University of Texas at Austin: Hecho en Texas, Ser y estar
• RAE and ASALE: listo, meanings prepared and clever
• UMass Amherst: Manual de gramática básica y avanzada del español, section 5.1.2
• RAE and ASALE: aburrir, definition 6 and participle
• RAE and ASALE: concordancia, sections 1 and 2
• RAE and ASALE: tener, definitions 12 and 15
• RAE and ASALE: usted
• RAE and ASALE: tú
• RAE and ASALE: forms of address and social relationships
• RAE and ASALE: subject pronoun presence and omission
• RAE and ASALE: vos
• Instituto Cervantes: beginner communicative functions
• Instituto Cervantes: beginner pragmatic strategies
• RAE and ASALE: tutear
• RAE and ASALE: regional voseo
• RAE and ASALE: vosotros
• Indiana University: forms of address curriculum