LearnModule 1 · Lesson 25 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, first halfUnit 5 · My body, my pets

Questions and no — asking and denying

Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 25 of 30: . On this page: 7 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
¿tienes un gato?	do you have a cat?	TYEH-nehs oon GAH-toh
sí, tengo un gato	yes, I have a cat	see, TEHN-goh oon GAH-toh
no, no tengo un gato	no, I do not have a cat	noh, noh TEHN-goh oon GAH-toh
no es un perro	it is not a dog	noh ehs oon PEH-rroh
¿es grande?	is it big?	ehs GRAHN-deh
pero	but	PEH-roh
o	or	oh

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.

Hear the words

Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.

La regla · The rule

Any statement becomes a yes/no question with a rising voice and the two written marks: ¿Tienes un gato? Nothing else changes — Spanish needs no extra word to ask.

Y también · And also

Spanish negation is one word in one place: no before the verb. No soy alto. No tiene ojos azules. No hay sillas. In a full answer the no comes twice — No, no tengo un gato — the first no answers, the second negates the verb.

Ojo · Watch out

no goes right before the verb, always: no tengo, no es, no hay. In a full answer the first no answers the question and the second one negates: no, no tengo un gato.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ¿tienes un gato?.
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 25 in Module 1 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.

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