Archive for the ‘ Pronouns ’ Category

Reflexive Prepositional Pronouns

Posted in Pronouns on 22 May 2013

Spanish reflexive prepositional pronouns are pronouns which refer back to the subject and occur after prepositions, often in order to emphasize the noun they replace.

Spanish Interrogative Pronouns

Posted in Pronouns on 3 April 2013

Interrogative pronouns (qué, quién, cuál, cuánto) are used to ask the questions who, what, which, and how much/many.

Spanish Object Pronoun Position

Posted in Pronouns on 27 March 2013

Object pronouns (direct, indirect, and reflexive) usually precede the verbs they modify. However, in the case of infinitives, present participles, and affirmative commands, they often get attached to the end of the verb instead.

Negative Pronouns – Ninguno, Nadie, Nada

Posted in Pronouns on 23 January 2013

Spanish negative pronouns, sometimes called indefinite negative pronouns, negate, refuse, or cast doubt on the existence of the noun that they replace.

Relative Pronouns

Posted in Pronouns on 2 January 2013

Just as in English, a Spanish relative pronoun links a dependent/relative clause (i.e., a clause that cannot stand alone) to a main clause. This lesson is a comparative summary of the Spanish relative pronouns que, quien, el que, el cual, and donde. Depending on context, the English equivalents are who, whom, that, which, whose, or where.

Prepositional pronouns

Posted in Prepositions, Pronouns on 6 December 2012

Spanish prepositional pronouns are used after prepositions, logically enough, often in order to emphasize the noun they replace, and are thus a sort of subcategory of the disjunctive or stressed pronouns found in other languages. There are 12 forms of prepositional pronouns in Spanish.

Quien – Spanish relative pronoun

Posted in Pronouns on 14 November 2012

As a relative pronoun, quien literally means “who” or “whom” and can only refer to people. The plural form is quienes.

Demonstrative Pronouns

Posted in Pronouns on 7 November 2012

Demonstrative pronouns (this one, that one, the one[s], these, those) refer to a previously-mentioned noun in a sentence.

El que – Spanish relative pronoun

Posted in Pronouns on 17 October 2012

Lesson on the relative pronoun el que, which literally means who or whom and has four different forms.

Donde – relative pronoun

Posted in Pronouns on 26 September 2012

As a relative pronoun, donde is usually preceded by a preposition, means where, and joins a main clause to a dependent or relative clause.