Talk:Spanish prepositions

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Hi. I'm the main contributor to this article. If anyone has any questions regarding Spanish grammar, I'd be happy to answer them, and incorporate the answer into the article. Fire away! — Chameleon 17:16, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I hate to negate a huge chunk of your work, but it seems like a lot of the content here would be better suited to a dictionary. A number of the sections should probably be merged into the relevant Wiktionary entries. :-/ Ruakh 06:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

After more than a month with no reply, I went ahead and removed the sections that only gave etymologies, definitions, and usage information, and moved the information in them to Wiktionary. The sections that gave grammar information, I left intact, though the etymologies and such should still probably be removed and added to Wiktionary. Ruakh 19:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Vamos" or "vayamos"?

In popular spoken Spanish para is often clipped to pa as in the very vulgar Amos p'alante ("Let's go forward") instead of the standard "Vayamos para adelante".

I changed "vayamos" to "vamos". Is there any reason anybody would say "vayamos" here that I might be unaware of? - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I've never heard anyone use vayamos in such a context, and don't expect to, but logically it does make sense: vamos is an archaic first-person plural present subjunctive of ir, and it's rather odd that it was preserved as its first-person plural affirmative imperative. (Indeed, ir is Spanish's only verb to have a distinct first-person plural affirmative imperative; all other verbs use their first-person plural present subjunctives as their first-person plural affirmative imperatives.) Nonetheless, this preservation is quite standard, and to use the modern subjunctive for this purpose would be non-standard; so I think you were right to make that change. —Ruakh_TALK 10:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)