Translate into Spanish: What is your name? (formal)
¿Cómo se llama usted?
llamar = to be named
Translate into Spanish: What is your name? (informal)
¿Cómo te llamas?
llamar = to be named
To form the plural of a noun ending in a consonant, add [-es] to the end.
To make the plural of an adjective ending in [a stressed vowel or a consonant other than -z], add -es.
To form [an adverb] from an adjective, add [-mente] to the [feminine|gender] form of the adjective.
Translate this word.
el gato
the cat
El gato se sentó en la estera. The cat sat on the mat.
Sp: [el perro] En: [the dog]
Cuidado con el perro. Beware of the dog.
la manzana
the apple
The Spanish word for…
Translate this word.
caliente
hot
El agua está muy caliente. The water is very hot.
Below is an example of a complex drill item. The main item is itself a drill item which tests your ability to translate ‘bailar’ to and from English (which direction is chosen at random).
The item has several child items, some of which contain notes about the verb,
others of which are separate drill items relating to the verb. In this example,
all of the child drill items test verb conjugation, and have the ‘conjugate’
card type. Which tense to test is specified by the VERB_TENSE property in
each item, and the information about the verb is retrieved from the parent’s
VERB_INFINITIVE, VERB_TRANSLATION and VERB_INFINITIVE_HINT properties.
Some of the conjugation items are empty – this allows the user to paste in conjugations as they are learned. They will automatically be excluded from drill sessions as long as their bodies remain empty.
Following this item is an example of the older “spanish_verb” card type. This is not as sophisticated or useful as the first example, but is intended to demonstrate how a function can control which subheadings are visible when an item is tested.
Sp: [bailar] En: [to dance] (verb)
This is a regular verb.
Bailé con mi novia. I danced with my girlfriend.
| yo | bailo |
| tú | bailas |
| él/usted | baila |
| nosotros | bailamos |
| vosotros | bailáis |
| ellos/ustedes | bailan |
Present participle of bailar: [bailando] Past participle of bailar: [bailado]
| yo | bailé |
| tú | bailaste |
| él/usted | bailó |
| nosotros | bailamos |
| vosotros | bailasteis |
| ellos/ustedes | bailaron |
cantar
to sing
| yo canto | nosotros cantamos |
| tú cantas | vosotros cantáis |
| él canta | ellos cantan |
| yo canté | nosotros cantamos |
| tú cantaste | vosotros cantasteis |
| él cantó | ellos cantaron |
| yo cantaré | nosotros cantaremos |
| tú cantarás | vosotros cantaréis |
| él cantarán | ellos cantarán |
Regular verb.
It is generally a lot harder for language students to translate to the foreign language, than to translate from it. This is because when you see a sentence in the foreign language, you can often get the sense of the sentence by recognising the nouns and verbs; once this is achieved, combining them into a grammatically correct sentence in your native tongue is automatic and effortless. However, in the other direction, not only do you have to recall the correct nouns, verbs and so on, but you also have to put the words in the right order and get all the grammar and “in-between words” correct.
Therefore, if you are learning a language you should generally test your ability to translate into the language, more often than you test your ability in the other direction.
The following is an example of the card type hide1_firstmore. This card type
works like hide1cloze but the first clozed text area is guaranteed to be
hidden 75% of the time.
The second example is of a similar card type, show1_firstless. Here only 1
clozed text area is visible during testing. 75% of the time, the first area
is guaranteed to be one of the hidden areas.
Sp: [La mujer cuyo perro estamos buscando es mi jefe.] En: [The woman whose dog we’re seeking is my boss.]
Sp: [entre] En: [between] or [among]