Persons and cognates

What is the formal word for you?

Usted

What person does you all fall under in Spanish?

second person plural

What is a cognate?

Words that look similar, sound similar and have the same meaning in multiple languages.

What is a false cognate?

When a word looks similar and sounds similar but has a totally different meaning.

How do you make an English verb that ends in “ate” a Spanish cognate?

Replacing “ate” with “ar”

How do you make “ct” ending words cognates?

By adding an “O” to the end

How do nouns that end in “ist” become Spanish cognates.

They can add an “A” to them to make it spanish

How do you make “ly” adverbs become Spanish adverbs?

Change “ly” to “mente”

How do “ty” ending nouns change to be cognates?

It can be changed to “dad”

What is the focus word for 3rd person?

About

What Person is it when the focus is yourself and another person?

First person plural

What person does formal you fall under?

3rd person

What is the focus word for 2nd person?

To

What is the focus word for 1st person?

Self

What is the name of a group you are a part of?

We

What person does formal you fall under?

3rd

What person does you (fam)?

2nd person

What are the 2 ways we determine Person?

Who the focus and then if it is singular or plural

What is the main pronoun used with 1st person singular?

I

What is the main pronoun used with 2nd person singular?

You

What is the main pronoun used with 1st person plural?

We

What are the 2 main differences between English persons and Spanish persons?

Spanish words have formal and informal meaning and Spanish words also have gender while English does not.

Is ustedes formal or informal?

Informal

What effect does gender have on persons?

It adds extra pronoun for spanish to represent gender

How do you make nouns that end in “ism” or “ment” a Spanish cognate?

They can have O added to them

What change is made to a “tion” noun to make it a cognate?

By replacing “tion” with “cion”