| This lesson will help you understand the Spanish
pronouns, subject and possessive pronouns, reflexive, indefinite, and relative
pronouns, interrogative, demonstrative, prepositional, and indirect object
pronouns,
and enables you to use real examples shown below. If you have any question let
us know by clicking on the “Contact us” button, this lesson is very important
since it covers a very widely used element in Spanish which is the pronouns.
A Pronoun
in Spanish as well as in English is like a shortcut to refer to a noun, a word
that stands for or represents a noun or noun phrase, a pronoun is identified
only in the context of the sentence in which they are used. So you must have a
prior idea about who "he or she" "él or ella" is. In
English we find "me, her, what, that, his", In Spanish they're used
pretty much the same way, the main difference is that in Spanish most pronouns
have a gender, masculine or feminine and rarely neuter to unknown objects or
ideas.
Types of pronouns include personal pronouns (refer to the persons speaking,
the persons spoken to, or the persons or things spoken about), indefinite pronouns, relative
pronouns (connect parts of sentences) and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns (in which the
object of a verb is being acted on by verb's subject).
This is mainly what you need to
remember about Pronouns in general:
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Spanish
Pronouns
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Type of Pronouns
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Use
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Examples
in Spanish (English)
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Subject
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Replaces
the subject of a sentence
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Yo (I), tú
(you), él (he), ella (she), nosotros (we), ellos
(they), ellas (they)
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Possessive
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Refers
to something owned or possessed by someone. usually preceded by el/la/los/las
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Mío (mine), mía
(mine), míos (mine), mías (mine), tuyo/a (yours), suyo/a
(his, hers, theirs), nuestro/a (ours), Vuestro/a (yours)
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Reflexive
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Used
when the direct object and indirect object of a verb refer to the same person.
Used more often in Spanish.
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Me (myself), te
(yourself), se (himself, herself, themselves), nos (ourselves),
os (yourselves)
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Indefinite
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Used
to refer to nonspecific people or things
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Algo (something), alguien
(anybody), nadie (nobody), todo (all), todas (all), uno
(one), unos (some), ninguno (none), mucho (many),
poco (little)
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Relative
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Introduces
a clause that gives more information about a noun or pronoun
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Que
(that,
which, who, whom), quien (who, whom), el cual (which, that
which) cuyo (whose), cuyas (whose), donde (where), el
que (that, which)
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Interrogative
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Used
in questions
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Qué (what), quién
(what), cuándo (when), cuánto (when)
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Demonstrative
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Replaces
a noun while also pointing to it
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Éste (this one), ésta
(this one), ésa (that one), aquéllos (those ones), aquél
(that one over there)
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Prepositional
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Function
as the object of a verb or preposition, used after prepositions, often in
order to emphasize the noun they replace
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Mi
(me), ti(you), él, nosotros, vosotros...(except mi and ti, the rest is the same
as in subject pronouns)
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Indirect Object Pronoun
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They’re
words that replace the indirect object, which is usually a person.
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Me
(me), te(you), le (him, her, you (formal), nos (us), vos (you), les (them)
Me da gusto ( it gives me pleasure). Te quiero (I love you)
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