📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 5 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 1 · Causa, consecuencia, finalidad
Tan… que, tanto que — consequence with force
Module 8 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 5 of 30: Spanish can build a consequence out of an intensity. On this page: 9 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
tan... que
so... that
tahn keh
tanto que
so much that
TAHN-toh keh
hacía tanto frío que
it was so cold that
ah-SEE-ah TAHN-toh FREE-oh keh
tanta gente
so many people
TAHN-tah HEHN-teh
cancelado
canceled (m)
kahn-seh-LAH-doh
dormirse
to fall asleep
dohr-MEER-seh
regresar
to go back
rreh-greh-SAR
la intensidad
the intensity
lah een-tehn-see-DAHD
el partido
the match (sport)
ehl par-TEE-doh
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 can build a consequence out of an intensity. Hacía tanto frío que regresamos — it was so cold that we went back. Tan works the same way with an adjective or adverb: estaba tan cansado que se durmió.
Y también · And also
With a noun, tanto agrees: tanta gente que no vimos nada, tantos problemas que. And tanto que on its own means so much that: llovió tanto que el partido fue cancelado. Hacía is hacer in the imperfecto — the weather verb of every Spanish story.
Ojo · Watch out
tan goes before an adjective or adverb (tan cansado, tan rápido); tanto before a noun agrees with it (tanta gente, tantos libros) and stands alone after a verb (llovió tanto). Never tan gente.
hacer, imperfecto — the table
yo hacía · tú hacías · él/ella/usted hacía · nosotros hacíamos · ustedes hacían · ellos/ellas hacían
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with tan... que.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out hacer, imperfecto 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.