Franklin Merriam-Webster Speaking Spanish - English Dictionary, BES-2110 Inflections/Conjugations

2.5 Inflections/Conjugations

Inflections and conjugations show changes in a word’s gender, tense, number, person, and other subtle variations. This device includes extensive inflections of Spanish and English nouns, adjectives, and other words. It also includes advanced verb conjugations, which include translations of verb tenses.

Follow these steps using the example word(s) suggested or with your own word(s) on any screen that shows the CONJ soft key. This includes any dictionary word entry screen, definition/translation screen, grammar guide, etc.

1. Press menú .

•The Books menu appears.

2.Press or to select English Conjugations or

Spanish Conjugations. Press enter = .

•Press LANG at the word entry screen to toggle the entry language between Spanish and English.

3. Type a word and press CONJ.

•For English, try “cold” to view its noun and adjective inflections; try “go” to view its conjugated verb forms. “Go” will show multiple parts of speech and multiple translations. Choose whichever one you like.

•For Spanish, try “mejor” to view its adjective inflections; “amor” to view its masculine noun inflections; and “creer” to view its conjugated verb forms. If prompted, choose one of the two translations for “creer”.

4. To make these conjugation choices, press or and then press enter = .

•Translations appear with each verb inflection.

Note: Because some words have different parts of speech or multiple translations, you may wish to look up the word in the Spanish-English or English-Spanish dictionary first, by pressingDICT at the word entry screen, and then press CONJ.

5.Pressor to scroll.

6.Press MORE or hold FN and press repeatedly to view more inflections.

•If the word is a noun, an adjective, or another modifier, then there won’t be any other inflections.

7.Press CLOSE to exit the list of inflections.

8.Press borrar/clear when done.

Grammar Help

When viewing inflections, press FN + menú

to go directly to a short grammar lesson with usage examples detailing how to use each inflection. If you are unfamiliar with inflections, it may be helpful to re-examine some inflected forms of words in your own native language first. Some examples for both English and Spanish are given above.

Verb Conjugations

The following table lists the verb tenses conjugated in each language.

Available Spanish tenses:

	• Present	• Preterite Anterior
	• Imperfect	• Future Perfect
	• Preterite	• Conditional Perfect
	• Future	• Present Perfect
		Subjunctive
	• Conditional	• Pluperfect Subjunctive
	• Present Subjunctive	• Pluperfect Subjunctive 2
	• Imperfect Subjunctive	• Imperative
	• Imperfect Subjunctive 2	• Present Progressive
	• Present Perfect	• Past Progressive
	• Pluperfect
Available English tenses:
	• Present Indicative	• Future Perfect
	• Present Progressive	• Pluperfect
	• Preterite	• Present Conditional
	• Past Progressive	• Past Conditional
	• Future	• Imperative
	• Present Perfect

2.6 Conversational Phrases

Quickly find translations of the most common English and Spanish conversational phrases in categories such as Emergencies, Business Communication, Shopping, and Weather.

Browsing Through Phrases

1. Press menú .

•The Books menu appears.

2.Press or to select English Conversational Phrases or Spanish Conversational Phrases,

then press enter = .

3. Press or to select a category and press enter = .

•Press or to select a subcategory, if needed,

	and press	enter = .
4.	Press or	to select the phrase you want to
	translate and then press enter =
•	Press	to hear the first phrase

listed on the screen. To hear the second (translated) phrase, press the HEAR 2ND soft key.

5.Press the PREV or NEXT soft keys to view or hear the previous or next phrase in the category.

6.Press borrar/clear when done.

Searching for a Phrase

1. Press menú .

•The Books menu appears.

2.Press or to select English Conversational Phrases or Spanish Conversational Phrases,

then press enter = .

3.Press or to select a category, and press enter = .

•Press or to select a subcategory, to narrow

your search, and press enter = .

Press LANG to toggle the language for the phrases between Spanish and English.

4.Press SEARCH.

5.At the “Find” prompt, type a keyword in the phrase you would like to translate and press

enter = .

•For example, type “direction” to yield the driving phrase “Did you bring the directions?” and other matching phrases

•Note: Do not enter ? or * for phrase searches.

•Note: If your search returns no matches, try other forms of the word, including the root word, if you typed an inflected form.

6.Press or to select one of the matching

phrases and press enter = .

• Press to hear the first phrase

listed on the screen. To hear the second (translated) phrase, press the HEAR 2ND soft key.

7.Press the PREV or NEXT soft keys to view or hear the previous or next phrase in the list of search results.

8.Press borrar/clear when done.

2.7 Using the English Dictionary

You can look up definitions of English words using the English Dictionary.

1. Press menú .

•The Books menu appears.

2. Press or to select The MW English Dictionary, then press enter = .

3. Type a word (e.g., poignant).

•The same keys and options available for word entry in the main translation dictionaries apply here.

4. Press enter = to view the definition.

•Press THES to view the thesaurus entry, if available.

•Pressor to scroll.

5. Hold FN and press or to view the previous or next definition.

6. Press borrar/clear when done.

Confusables

Confusables are homonyms, homophones and spelling variants that are easy to confuse, e.g. rain, reign, and rein. If the word you looked up is a confusable, the CONF soft key will appear. Press CONF to view the confusables.

Selecting Words

You can select words in the English Dictionary, add them to My English Word List, and hear their pronunciations the same way you did in the English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionaries, but you will only be able to look them up within the English Dictionary or Franklin Thesaurus.

2.8Using the Franklin Thesaurus

View synonyms, classmates (related words), idioms, antonyms, and other expressions for an English word using the Franklin Thesaurus.

1. Press menú .

•The Books menu appears.

2.Useorto select Franklin Thesaurus, then press enter = .

3.Type a word (e.g., splendid).

•The same keys and options available for word entry in the main translation dictionaries apply here.

4. Press enter = to view the thesaurus entry.

•Press DICT to view the English Dictionary entry, if available.

Pressorto scroll.

6. Hold FN and pressorto view the previous or next thesaurus entry.

7. Press borrar/clear when done.

Understanding Thesaurus Entries

A thesaurus entry consists of the headword, its part of speech, and a brief definition followed by one or more synonyms, antonyms, classmates, or idioms. Synonyms are words that have similar meanings, e.g. happy/joyous. Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, e.g. happy/ miserable. Classmates are words that are related to the headword, e.g. octagon/triangle; rectangle; pentagon.... Finally, idioms are phrases that extend the ordinary use of the word.

3. LEARN Menu

3.1 My Word List

As you explore new words, save them in either My English Word List or My Spanish Word List for personal study or review.

Adding Words Directly

1.	Press	menú	and then press LEARN.
2.	Press	or	to select My English Word List or
	My Spanish Word List. Press enter = .
3.	Press ADD.
4.	Type a word, and press enter = .

•Spanish words are automatically added to the list.

•When you type an English word, a list is displayed of the dictionaries in which your word appears—EN (English Dictionary) or ES (MW English-Spanish Dictionary). If the option appears in italics the translation for that word is already saved to the list.

•Note: If the word you typed is not found in any dictionary on the device you see a list of possible corrections.

5.Pressorto select the entry you want to add to your list.