Spanish Quiz Nbr. 3 – Lessons 13 – 19

This quiz includes exercises from all topics covered in lessons 13 – 19 (or Compilation Nbr. 3).

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1. Please translate the following sentence into Spanish (use the right punctuation mark at the end of the sentence, and only use upper-case when necessary):

That gentleman has an apple (manzana).

2. In the previous exercise we used an indefinite article for “apple”. Please rewrite that sentence in Spanish using a definite article this time:

3. Please rewrite the following sentence in Spanish:

These boys want those things (cosas).

4. Please translate the following sentence into Spanish:

This woman has five books.

5. Please translate the following sentence into Spanish:

This Summer is hot.

6. Please translate the following sentence into Spanish:

We are in October.

7. Please translate the following question into Spanish:

Right now it is raining.

8. Please rewrite the following sentence in Spanish:

This Spring it is cloudy
The Spanish noun for Spring is feminine.
The Spanish noun for weather (clima) is masculine.

9. Please rewrite the following sentence in Spanish (write down the number with letters; don’t use figures):

Today is Wednesday, 3rd of January.

10. Please rewrite the following sentence in Spanish:

We drink coffee (café) and they eat cake (torta).

11. When going to the market, how would you ask?

How much does this (esto) cost?

12. As a reply to the previous question, translate:

It costs 15 pesos (write the number in letters).






30 COMMENTS

  1. i think i just picked up some words which are used in ecuador, where boys are also called chicos and drink are also called domar. domar un café.

    • Hello Siyu. Thanks for commenting here. These words are used I think, in many Spanish speaking countries. And “tomar” for drinnking (not “domar”) is used all around Latin-America. DOMAR, however, is another word. It means: TO TAME. So, it is “tomar un café”, in Ecuador and everywhere else 😉

  3. YAYY! Third’s a charm. I finally learned how to set my keyboard to spanish setting, and I got a better grade! I did this same test three different types and now I got only two or three wrong.

  4. I took this quiz three times, trying to drill into my head este, esta, ese, esa, etc. etc. Very tricky.

    Also I have trouble determining the difference between ser and estar.

    On the third try, the mistakes I made were careless. noun / article agreement and missing accent mark, but taking these quizzes more than once really helps Spanish to sink in!

  5. In question 8 I also omitted the Nosotros and got it wrong but I think I understand why they should both be there. However in question 9, is it really a mistake to add the coma after the day : “Hoy es miércoles, tres de enero”? And finally, I’m not sure if you mentioned it in the lessons (I probably just missed it), but why is there a second question mark preceding all the questions in Spanish? If you put a question mark only at the end wouldn’t it be clear already? Hihi

    Thanks in advance!

    Sabrina

    • Hi Sabrina.

      Congratulations. I can see you did well in the Spanish test Nbr. 3. In Spanish you don’t add a coma in that sentence. Spanish usually uses longer sentences than English. Comas are used to divide phrases within a sentence, in order to make the sense clear. However, there are rules for using comas (which unfortunately very few people know well). But in written language you should not use as many comas as natural pauses in spoken language. But also, in Spanish that phrase hasn’t even got a pause in spoken language 🙂

      As for the question marks:

      In Spanish we use ¿? A question sentence must be written between these two signs. One opens the question, and the other closes it. Here I explain why:

      In English and German grammar, you invert the order of subject and verb when you have a question. Therefore, as soon as you see a verb before the subject, you immediately know that you are reading a question sentence. However, the structure isn’t altered in Spanish. The structure is the same for a question sentence as for an assertive sentence. Look:

      – Quiero comer. (I want to eat)
      – ¿Quiero comer? (Do I want to eat?)

      Therefore, in Spanish we need to open the question mark in order to indicate that it is a question sentence.

      Lately, due to the chat-rooms, quick-emails, the influence from English, Spanish speakers are omitting to open the question mark as they type. Many times they don’t even know where to find it in their English keyboards. But academically, you must open the question mark. You will always see it in books, documents, and well written texts.

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