Contents
This lesson covers one of the most important grammar topics in the language: Spanish subject pronouns – Los pronombres personales. This kind of pronouns are used in every single conversation we have. Learning how to use them is fundamental to communicate our ideas accurately. We will cover the rules to use subject pronouns in real sentences and questions through several examples, a nice video and an interactive quiz.
Introductory video: Basic rules for personal pronouns in Spanish
We will begin this lesson with a short video showing a list of “pronombres personales” and how these pronouns are organized into categories. The video intends to give you a broad idea of what the lesson is all about and includes a few important notes to learn to use subject pronouns in simple sentences and lots of examples too, so please stick until the end of the video.
Video quiz Grammar: Personal pronouns Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 4 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 Information This short quiz will test if you Understood the Most Important points from the video. You can play it again IF NECESSARY. Do not Worry About getting all the answers correctly as we will Explain more details in the rest of the lesson. You have completed the quiz Already before. HENCE you can not start it again. Quiz is loading ... You must sign in or sign up to start the quiz. You have to finish following quiz, to start this quiz: Results 0 of 4 questions answered correctly Your time: Time has elapsed You have reached 0 of 0 points (0) Average score Your score Categories Not categorized 0% 1 2 3 4 Answered Review Question 1 of 4 1. Question Which of these words are pronouns staff? He Me You A La She We You About Your Correct Incorrect They TU The words without tittle is a possessive adjective, THE without tittle is a definite article, UNand UNOS are indefinite articles, and LA and LAS are definite articles as well. You can identify ÉL and TÚ are personal pronouns because they have tilde. Question 2 of 4 2. Question “Los pronombres personales” are grouped into categories. In a party, the first person is the host which would be YO (I), the second person would be TÚ (you) and third person is someone who is not neither you nor I, ELLOS (they). Please choose the best category for the remaining pronouns. Sort elements Yo Usted Vosotros Él Ellas Primera persona Segunda persona Segunda persona Tercera persona Tercera persona Correct Incorrect Question 3 of 4 3. Question Choose the subject pronoun that best describe a noun or nouns. Sort elements Ellas Nosotros Ellos Ella Él Ana y María Eduard y yo Mark y sus amigos Sandra Alejandro Correct Incorrect Question 4 of 4 4. Question Select the rules about subject pronouns that are true. When a pronoun in feminine form is used along with a masculine one, we can use a masculinepronoun to refer to both of them, e.g. “EL y ELLA” can be replaced by ELLOS. We can omit the subject pronoun in a sentence without affecting its meaning, e.g. “Ella es linda” would be the same as “Es linda” Tú and Vos are more casual subject pronouns than USTED Correct Incorrect
Subject pronouns in Spanish: definition and list - Personal pronouns
LOS PRONOMBRES PERSONALES or subject pronouns may replace a noun (un sustantivo) and function as the subject of a sentence. They give use information about who performs an action or is being affected and tell us the person’s gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural). For example, if we see a sentence with the pronoun ÉL we would know we are talking about a man, whereas a sentence with ELLA would be talking about a woman. The picture below shows all Los pronombres personales en español and how they are classified into three categories called PERSONAS.
Personal pronouns in Spanish
"Personal pronouns" are classified into three grammatical persons, PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON Their singular or plural form. It Means That if we talk about prep FIRST PERSON SINGULAR (first person of the singular form) we would be Talking about the subject pronoun I, Whereas if We were talking acerca THIRD PERSON PLURAL (third person of the plural fom) we would be talking about THEY / THEM. These people are very useful When learning in any tense. We will see this in future lessons, but in what is generally Important is that you 'know the meaning of the pronouns and How They can be used to replace a noun in a sentence. Here is a chart with subject pronouns and Their Corresponding meaning in Inglés.
Person Singular Meaning Plural Meaning 1st Yo I Nosotros, nosotras We 2nd Tú/vos You Vosotros(as) – only used in Spain You 2nd Usted(formal) You Ustedes – used in Latin America You 3rd Él He They Ellos 3rd Ella She They Ellas
Language tip: “El pronombre personal VOS” is used in several Latin American countries but in a more informal context, between family members for example. The pronoun TÚ is more polite and acceptable in many countries, but it depends on the culture of that place. If you haven’t met someone before or want to sound respectful, you’d better use TÚ or USTED.
Using Spanish subject pronouns in sentences and questions.
Subject pronouns are very easy to use actually. We just need to find a pronoun that agrees in number () and gender () with the original noun and make sure that this pronoun corresponds to the form of the verb as well, for example, if we are talking about a guy named “Carlos” and we don’t want to repeat his name many times, we can use the pronoun “Él” instead as in the sentence “Carlos es buena persona. Él tiene dos hijos”. Sometimes personal pronouns could be omitted but keeping the right conjugation of the verb, which means that the sentence “Yo vivo en Miami” would mean the same as “Vivo en Miami”. We often keep the pronoun when we need to emphasize who performs the action and omit it when we are in a casual conversation or just want to sound more natural. Here are some examples:
Examples of sentences using subject/personal pronouns Yo vivo con mi mamá I live with my mother ¿ Tú tienes un bolígrafo? Do you have a pen? ¿ Vos viste esa película? Did you see that movie? Él, ella, usted – Ken está en preescolar. Él es buen estudiante He, She, You – Ken is attending preschool. He is a good student Nosotros vamos a casarnos pronto. We are getting married soon ¿ Vosotros podéis ayudarme? Can you help me? ¿ Ustedes quieren trabajar conmigo? Do you want to work with me? Ann y Karl son listos. Ellos siempre están trabajando mucho. Ann and Karl are smart. They are always working hard.
Quiz: ¿Cuál es el pronombre personal apropiado? Please wait while the activity loads. If this activity does not load, try refreshing your browser. Also, this page requires javascript. Please visit using a browser with javascript enabled. If loading fails, click here to try again This quiz about PRONOMBRES PERSONALES. You will see several incomplete sentences so will have to choose the correct personal pronoun to complete each sentence so it makes sense. You will receive an interesting tip every time you find a correct answer. Press "START" to begin the test. Start Congratulations - you have completed Quiz: ¿Cuál es el pronombre personal apropiado?.You scored %%SCORE%% out of %%TOTAL%%.We recommend you to %%RATING%% Your answers are highlighted below. Question 1 María vive en Estados Unidos. ____ es cantante. A Ella B Él C Nosotros Question 1 Explanation: Well, there are two clues for this sentence. The first one is that we are talking about “María” and the pronoun that agrees withthis name is “Ella”. Second, looking at the form of verb to be (ES) in the second sentence, we can infer that “Él” and “Ella” are the closest answers. Question 2 Los niños siempre juegan en el patio. ______ la pasan bien juntos. A Nosotros B Yo C Ellos Question 2 Explanation: In this case we are talking about “los niños” (the kids). It gives us the clue that we must use “Ellos” in the next sentence. Remember that it is also possible to omit the subject pronoun and just say something like “La pasan bien juntos” Question 3 Mi nombre es Alejandro. ____ tengo 5 años de trabajar aquí. A Yo B Ella C Tú Question 3 Explanation: Like in all sentences, the form of the verb tells us what subject pronoun to use. “Tengo” comes from the verb “tener” (to have) and it is in the first person of the singular so we have to use the pronoun “Yo”. Question 4 Ana y yo somos empresarias. _____ somos buenas amigas. A Ellas B Nosotras C Ustedes Question 4 Explanation: Here we have to use “nosotras” becausewe are talking about two women. “Nosotros”, “Vosotros” and “Ellos” are affected by gender rules, which means that if we are talking about a group of women, we would have to use these pronouns in a feminine form, for example: “Nosotras”, “Ellas” and so on. In this case “ellas” and “ustedes” do not fit in the sentence because they do not agree with the form of the verb in the sentence. Question 5 ¡Mucho gusto! _______ eres el novio de Ana ¿verdad? A ellos B usted C tú Question 5 Explanation: In this case we need “tú” because is the only pronoun that matches this form of the verb “to be” (SER), “eres”. Question 6 Disculpen señoritas, ¿_______ trabajan aquí? A Ustedes B Yo C Nosotros Question 6 Explanation: When we need to ask something in Spanish to more than one people, we use the subject pronoun “ustedes”. Remember that “vosotros” is only used in Spain so it is not very common to hear that in Latin America. Question 7 Ayer vi a Carlos en la tienda. ______ te mandó saludos. A Él B EllaC Nosotras Question 7 Explanation: Since we are talking about Carlos, we need pronoun “Él” to refer to him in the second sentence. Once you are finished, click the button below. Any items you have not completed will be marked incorrect. Get Results There are 7 questions to complete. ← List → Return Shaded items are complete. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 End Return You have completed questions question Your score is Correct Wrong Partial-Credit You have not finished your quiz. If you leave this page, your progress will be lost. Correct Answer You Selected Not Attempted Final Score on Quiz Attempted Questions Correct Attempted Questions Wrong Questions Not Attempted Total Questions on Quiz Question Details Results Date Score Hint Time allowed minutes seconds Time used Answer Choice(s) Selected Question Text All done review this lesson… continue studying this lesson! review this Spanish lesson and find more important points. Studying a lesson related to this topic may be useful too. continue learning!Good work! keep up the good work! Perfect!
Previous lesson Next lesson
Share this:
Related lessons: