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Tan and Tanto
Tan and tanto are obviously related to each other, and they are both used in making what are known as comparisons of equality. However, they are not used the same way: Tan is used with adverbs and adjectives, while tanto (and its variations) is used with nouns.
Reflexive Form May Bring Subtle Change in Meaning
Sometimes when you see a reflexive form of a verb in use, it may be hard to tell how its different in meaning from the standard form of the verb. The fact is that sometimes, as explained in our new lesson on the difference between caer and caerse, the change in meaning sometimes isn't much.
Winning with Ganar
If you're playing a sports contest or buying a lottery ticket, one word you might want to be able to use afterward is ganar, as it's the most common Spanish verb for "to win." The same word is used to refer to earning money. One good way to remember this word is that it's related to the English verb "to gain," which makes it a cognate.
A Name for Almost Every Relative

As a reader recently reminded me in an email, there a names for family relatives that exist in Spanish that we don't have in English.

Concuñado and concuñada had long been on our list — that's the husband of your wife's sister or the wife of your husband's brother. But I confess I was stumped to recall the word for the father-in-law or mother-in-law of one's child — only in the past few months have I had such a relative. As it turns out, that's another con- word — consuegro or consuegra.

A few other words (such as madrina for godmother) have also been added to the relatives list. And in recognition of

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A Name for Almost Every Relative originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 16:39:17.

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Hacia Usually Used To Mean "Toward"
If you're already familiar with the common prepositions such as en and para, here's one that you don't see quite so often: hacia. The preposition hacia usually is used to indicate motion toward a person or thing. It also be used in describing directions or attitudes and in giving approximations of time.