Spanish Pronouns

Spanish Relative Pronouns & Spanish Interrogative Pronouns

Spanish pronouns give us a wide variety of usage. They can take the spot of a noun and without them, the Spanish sentence would be completely different. There are demonstrative, relative, possessive, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns in the Spanish language. You could also consider "que", subject, and reflexive pronouns in this list. We will briefly cover pronouns in this article.

When you talk about accents in a pronoun, you have to think of it a little differently. This particular accent is called an orthographic accent. What is an orthographic accent? In this case, an orthographic accent is used to clarify whether the word is a pronoun or an adjective. There is something a little different about the use of Spanish pronouns as you can imagine. What is that difference?

The difference is you must use a masculine pronoun if you want to replace a masculine noun. The same rule applies for the feminine side of things too. Also, Spanish has something called neuter pronouns. These pronouns are primarily used to reference an unknown object. With that said, let us look at some specifics.

One of the common types of pronouns used is the possessive form. These pronouns refer to words such as this, that, yours, mine, and the list goes on. There are four main types of possessive pronouns. They include singular and plural, masculine and feminine. This format is used for pronouns in Spanish and in English.

Please note that the singular form of masculine pronouns can be thought of as a neuter pronoun. When do you use the neuter form though? You use the neuter form when you are not referring to any one thing in particular. When using these possessive pronouns, you will find yourself using the definite article a lot as well. Do you remember what those were? They were the words such as "el, la, los, and las". You can think of the definite article to mean the English equivalent of the word "the".

A second type of pronoun which has wide use are the Spanish relative pronouns. The relative pronouns are used to give us information about the noun in the sentence. For example, the sentence, "The girl who is checking you out is good looking.", gives us something to work with. The relative pronoun would be the word "who" and the clause for that sentence would be "who is checking". The subject of the sentence is the word "you". Popular types of relative pronouns include whose, whom, which and too.

Be advised that some relative pronouns (as well as other types) may also function as another form. The relative pronouns "who and whom" can also be used as interrogative pronouns. There is one little factor that can help you distinguish an interrogative pronoun from a relative one. We know that interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. Questions normally start with a word like "why, where, whom, who" and the list goes on. So, if you see a pronoun at the start of a sentence, it is likely that it is a interrogative one. This is just a basic over on Spanish pronouns. To learn all you can, click the box for Rocket Spanish on this page, if you want to speak fluent Spanish. Verbs>>