In Spanish there are two main ways of translating the verb ‘to be’: ser and estar. The verb haber has two very different uses: on its own it expresses the idea ‘there is’/‘there are’. Spanish does not have a direct equivalent of the verb ‘to like’ when referring to things or actions. Instead it uses the verb ‘to please’ in an inverted construction. Pronominal verbs – los verbos pronominales – are always conjugated with reflexive pronouns, which change according to the person of the verb. If the pronoun se appears in brackets it means that the verb exists in both a pronominal and a non-pronominal form. Spanish has a special verb, soler, which conveys the idea of actions as usual or habitual occurrences. In the present tense it is radical-changing. It is normally expressed in English by the word ‘usually’, and by the verb form ‘used to’ in the past.