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Spanish alphabet and characters

The Spanish alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Romance languages.

Lower-case characters:

Spanish alphabet (lower case)

Upper-case characters

Spanish grammar rules

Nouns

Nouns in Spanish have two genders: masculine and feminine. They inflect for number (singular and plural), however the devision between countable and uncountable is ambiguous.

Verbs

Verbs in Spanish have nine indicative tenses:

the present tense (‘I write’),
the preterite (‘I wrote’),
the imperfect (‘I was writing’ or ‘I used to write’),
the present perfect (‘I have written’),
the past perfect — also called the pluperfect (‘I had written’),
the future (‘I will write’),
the future perfect (‘I will have written’),
the conditional simple (‘I would write’)
the conditional perfect (‘I would have written’).

The verbs inflect for number and person.

Spanish formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Monday
Working days	Monday to Friday
Short date format	d-M-yy as well as d/M/yy; dd/MM/yy and d.M.yy; dd.MM.yy
	e.g. 24-3-16 or 24/3/16; 24/03/16 or 24.3.16; 24.03.16
Long date format	dddd d de MMMM de yyyy, as well as d de MMMM de yyyy
	e.g. jueves 24 de marzo de 2016 / 24 de marzo de 2016
Exception	Long date format for scientific or technical papers distributed worldwide only yyyy MMMM d e.g. 2016 marzo 24

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 11,50
Thousand separator	. (period) or not splitted as per new spelling guidelines
	e.g. 2.000 or 2000, not 2 000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using period or non-breaking space as per new spelling guidelines
	e.g. 20.000,00 or 20 000,00, not 20,000.00
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C 10 %, not 10%
Percentage	it is not considered incorrect to spell percentage out (“por ciento”) following a number, but the use of the symbol (%) is preferred
Spanish currency name	euro
Currency symbol	€
Currency symbol position	located after the number, preceded by a space
	e.g. 100,50 € / 100.000.000,00 €

Spanish capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

People’s names.
Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
Use ALL capitals for: devices and drives names, directories, environment variables, file extensions and filenames, program name abbreviations, message and symbolic constants, paths and registers.
For software interface elements, capitalize only the first letter of the first word in commands, dialog box titles, dialog box options, menus, buttons, and names of panes, views or windows.
Headings/titles: only the first word is capitalised unless a proper noun is featured.

Should NOT be capitalised

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