Bueno, óptimo, good, very good. Malo, pésimo, bad, very bad. Grande, máximo, great, very Pequeño, mínimo, small, very great. Chico, small. 75. While the superlative absolute is usually translated by very, with an adjective, it is sometimes used merely to intensify the adjective 27 veinte y siete, or veintisiete. 2,000,000 dos millones. 28 veinte y ocho, or veintiocho. un 77. The cardinals are invariable in form except uno-a, cientosas, and millón-es, and their compounds. 78. Ciento and mil may not be used with un; millón may be used with un when it is a substantive; in that case millón is fol lowed by de: Cien hombres, a hundred men. Un millón de expresiones, a mil lion (of) expressions. Mil soldados, a thousand soldiers. 79. Ciento and mil may become substantives by changing to centenar and millar: Centenares de estrellas, hundreds Millares de libros, thousands of of stars. books. 80. In counting upward from one thousand, mil must always introduce the number: Mil ochocientos. Eighteen hundred. ORDINALS 81. The ordinals, both simple and compound, vary like adjectives in o, to agree in gender and number with their nouns. They are as follows: 1st primero-a, (contract primer). 2d segundo-a. 3d tercero-a, (contract tercer). 4th cuarto-a. 5th quinto-a. 6th sexto-a. 7th séptimo-a. 8th octavo-a. 9th noveno-a, or nono-a. 10th décimo-a. 11th undécimo-a. 12th duodécimo-a. 13th décimotercio. 14th décimocuarto. 15th décimoquinto. 16th décimosexto. 17th décimoséptimo. 18th décimoctavo. 19th décimonoveno. 21st vigésimoprimo. 31st trigésimoprimo, etc. 82. Fractionals may be expressed by the use of the ordinals with the noun parte, part, or by the employment of certain fractional nouns, of which this is the list: MULTIPLICATIVES 83. The multiplicatives, answering to, How many fold? are: 84. Next to the verb, the personal pronoun is more fully inflected than any other part of speech, as will be seen by the follow ing table: N. vos, you. G. de vos, D. os-á vosotros-as, to you, of you, of yourself. A. os―á vosotros-as, you, D. os-á vos, to you, to yourself. A. os-á vos, you, yourself. to yourselves. yourselves. P. vosotros-as, you, yourselves. they, you. G. de él, V., you. D. le-á él, V., of him, of it, de ellos, Vds., to him, to it, les-á ellos, Vds., you. A. le, lo-á él, V., him, it, you. P. él. V., of them, you. to them, you. him, it, you. los, les-á ellos, Vds., them, you. other. D. Se-á sí, to himself, to herself, Se-á sí, to themselves, to each to itself. A. Se-á sí, himself, herself, it- Se-á sí, themselves, each other. P. Sí, self. himself, herself, it- Sí, self. themselves, each other. 85. Since the terminations of Spanish verbs usually indicate the person, the subject or nominative pronouns are suppressed, except when needed to prevent ambiguity, or to express emphasis: Hablo el español. Vendemos las casas. I speak Spanish. 86. When expressed, the nominative pronouns yo, I; nosotrosas, we; ellos-as, they, are used as in English, and should cause no difficulty. 87. The old form nos, we, is used by sovereigns, prelates, or magistrates in a representative sense, and survives in certain devotional phrases: Nos los soberanos. Venga á nos el tu reino. We the sovereign rulers. 88. The pronouns that occasion the greatest difficulty are those of the second person or of the third person used as a second, in |
