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Cuyo is a relative adjective that means whose, of whom, or of which. Like other Spanish adjectives, cuyo agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number. Cuyo is used to indicate the noun who or which is the object of the clause that follows.

Possessive adjectives indicate to whom or to what something belongs. In Spanish there are two different sets of possessive adjectives: long/stressed forms and short/unstressed forms.

Spanish adjectives may be found before or after the nouns they modify, depending on various factors. Generally speaking, descriptive adjectives follow nouns, while limiting adjectives precede nouns.

There are several Spanish adjectives that have a shortened form when they precede certain nouns: gran, buen, primer, etc.

Affirmative indefinite adjectives are used to modify nouns in a unspecific sense.

Demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those) are words which indicate a specific noun. Spanish demonstrative adjectives are more complicated than their English counterparts, because there are three different sets and they must agree in gender and number with the noun they modify.

Todo is a very common and versatile word in Spanish that can be used as an adjective or as a pronoun.

Learn how to say my, your, his, her, its, our, and their in Spanish, then test your skills.

An introduction to “conjugating” Spanish adjectives.