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How well do you know the different registers of Spanish? From formal bureaucratic language to informal colloquial expressions, Spanish speakers constantly shift between styles depending on context, audience, and purpose. Test your knowledge of key vocabulary and concepts related to linguistic registers, including formal, informal, technical, and literary varieties of the language.
Grid
Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 1. To seem
- 3. Wind, symbol of restlessness
- 8. Opened, irregular past participle
- 10. Vulgar or crude expression
- 13. Language register or level of speech
- 14. Always, at all times without exception
- 15. Language or speech system
Down
- 2. Courtly or very polite language
- 4. Prescriptive language standard
- 5. Related to a regional dialect
- 6. Use of offensive language terms
- 7. Social group language variety
- 9. Casual everyday language style
- 11. Idiomatic expression in Spanish
- 12. To know a person or place
Answers
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Across
- 1. To seem → parecer
- 3. Wind, symbol of restlessness → viento
- 8. Opened, irregular past participle → abierto
- 10. Vulgar or crude expression → vulgarismo
- 13. Language register or level of speech → registro
- 14. Always, at all times without exception → siempre
- 15. Language or speech system → lenguaje
Down
- 2. Courtly or very polite language → cortesano
- 4. Prescriptive language standard → normativo
- 5. Related to a regional dialect → dialectal
- 6. Use of offensive language terms → disfemismo
- 7. Social group language variety → sociolecto
- 9. Casual everyday language style → informal
- 11. Idiomatic expression in Spanish → modismo
- 12. To know a person or place → conocer
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