📖LearnModule 13 · Lesson 10 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, first halfUnit 2 · Las construcciones impersonales
El estilo administrativo
Module 13 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 10 of 30: Spanish officialdom writes in a register of its own. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
adjunto remito
please find enclosed
ahd-HOON-toh rreh-MEE-toh
salvo error u omisión
errors and omissions excepted
SAHL-boh eh-RROHR oo oh-mee-SYOHN
se ruega
you are kindly requested
seh RRWEH-gah
el contrato de arrendamiento
the lease
ehl kohn-TRAH-toh deh ah-rrehn-dah-MYEHN-toh
administrativo
administrative
ahd-mee-nees-trah-TEE-boh
traducir a lenguaje claro
to put into plain words
trah-doo-SEER ah lehn-GWAH-heh KLAH-roh
más abajo
below
mahs ah-BAH-hoh
sin inmutarse
without flinching
seen een-moo-TAR-seh
el expediente
the file (a dossier)
ehl ehks-peh-DYEHN-teh
yo remito el expediente
I forward the file
yoh rreh-MEE-toh ehl ehks-peh-DYEHN-teh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Spanish officialdom writes in a register of its own, and at C2 you have to read it without flinching. Adjunto remito. Se ruega confirmar asistencia. A la espera de su respuesta. Salvo error u omisión.
Y también · And also
You will rarely write it. You will constantly read it — on a lease, a tax notice, a hospital letter — and the single most useful habit is to translate each sentence into plain Spanish before deciding what it asks of you.
Ojo · Watch out
adjunto remito is fixed — adjunto does not agree with what is enclosed. salvo error u omisión: o becomes u before a word starting with o. se ruega is you are kindly requested, an order in a courteous coat.
rogar, presente — the table
yo ruego · tú ruegas · él/ella/usted ruega · nosotros rogamos · ustedes ruegan · ellos/ellas ruegan
remitir, presente — the table
yo remito · tú remites · él/ella/usted remite · nosotros remitimos · ustedes remiten · ellos/ellas remiten
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with adjunto remito.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out rogar, presente and remitir, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.