西班牙语西班牙語 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use

Character breakdown

• 西 xī west
• 班 bān team
• 牙 yá tooth
• 语語 yǔ dialect

Stroke order

How it used to be written

西

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東晉
• See all 36 forms

班

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 9 forms

牙

• Bronze script 西周中期
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 14 forms

语

These are the forms of 語, the traditional character: 语 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 春秋晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 9 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 她会说西班牙语 。

  She can speak Spanish.

• 当西班牙殖民了菲律宾时，是从墨西哥城管理它的。于是他加禄语是收到了墨西哥式西班牙语的影响，而不卡斯蒂利亚式的。

  When Spain colonized the Philippines, they were administrated by Mexico City. So it was Mexican Spanish, not Castilian Spanish, that influenced Tagalog.

• 我不会讲英语，更不会讲西班牙语。

  I cannot speak English, much less Spanish.

• 我们在学习西班牙语。

  We are learning Spanish.

• 我会说西班牙语。

  I can speak Spanish.

• 我会说西班牙语和法语。

  I know how to speak Spanish and French.

• 我听说英语是用来赚钱的，法语是用来做爱的，西班牙语是用来祈求上帝的。

  I've heard it said that English is for making money, French for making love, and Spanish for praying to God.

• 我被迫学了西班牙语。

  I was forced to learn Spanish.

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