📖LearnModule 7 · Lesson 23 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, completedUnit 5 · Ya no, nunca, nada, nadie
Solo, nada más — only
Module 7 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, completed), lesson 23 of 30: Only is solo, and it goes right in front of the thing being limited. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
solo tengo diez pesos
I have only ten pesos
SOH-loh TEHN-goh dyehs PEH-sohs
solo
only (just)
SOH-loh
ni... ni
neither... nor
nee nee
nada más
just, nothing more
NAH-dah mahs
el límite
the limit
ehl LEE-mee-teh
suficiente
enough (adjective)
soo-fee-SYEHN-teh
el resto
the rest
ehl RREHS-toh
al menos
at least
ahl MEH-nohs
ninguno
none (not a single one)
neen-GOO-noh
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
Only is solo, and it goes right in front of the thing being limited, which is why moving it moves the meaning: solo tengo diez pesos (I have only ten pesos) against tengo solo diez pesos (I have just ten, and nothing else). Nada más after the amount says the same: diez pesos nada más.
Y también · And also
Ni... ni is neither... nor: no bebe ni té ni café. And ninguno is not a single one: ninguno de mis amigos vino. Before a masculine noun it shortens to ningún: ningún problema — no problem.
Ojo · Watch out
solo goes right before the thing being limited: solo tengo diez pesos. ninguno shortens to ningún before a masculine noun: ningún problema. And ni... ni needs no before the verb: no bebe ni té ni café.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with solo tengo diez pesos.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 23 in Module 7 are the written half of this page.
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.