Adjetivos demostrativos - Spanish Demonstrative Adjectives

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, as explained below. Remember that all Spanish adjectives must agree in gender and number with the noun they modify.

The three sets of Spanish demonstrative adjectives are este (this - something near the speaker), ese (that - something near the listener), and aquel (that - something far from both the speaker and listener).

Because both ese and aquel mean "that," I've added phrases into the English translations in order to clarify the difference between these two demonstrative adjectives.

 
Each set of Spanish demonstrative adjectives corresponds with at least one place word.

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