Lesson 68

How Much, So Much, Too Much

Language Transfer Complete Spanish is by Mihalis Eleftheriou. Listen to the original audio first; use these notes for revision.

New vocabulary

Spanish	English
¿cuánto?	how much?
¿cuántos?	how many?
tanto	so much (before nouns)
tan	so (before adjectives)
bastante	enough / quite
demasiado	too much
hombre	man (h-o-m-b-r-e)
creer	to believe
vez	time (una vez = once)
día	day (masculine!)
todo el día	all day

Demonstrative review: Remove the t from esta/este to get esa/ese — this → that. El hombre este / el hombre ese is also valid word order (possibly from Arabic influence).

Esto/eso = abstract this/that (no specific noun): No creo esto = I don't believe this.

Sentences practiced

Spanish	English
Esta noche.	Tonight.
Esa noche.	That night.
Esas noches.	Those nights.
Este hombre.	This man.
Ese hombre.	That man.
Estos hombres.	These men.
Esos hombres.	Those men.
No creo esto.	I don't believe this.
Nada me gusta más que esto.	Nothing pleases me more than this. (= I don't like anything more than this)
Nada me gustó más que eso.	Nothing pleased me more than that.
Estaba tan cansado.	I was so tired.
Estábamos tan cansados.	We were so tired.
Todo el día.	All day.
Estábamos tan cansados cuando llegamos que dormimos todo el día.	We were so tired when we arrived that we slept all day.