Spanish Personal Pronouns
What Are Personal Pronouns in Spanish?
Start your journey to Spanish language with the first basic grammar lessons. In this page we talk about Personal Pronouns in Spanish and how to identify each of them. This will help you to create any sentence and also to conjugate the verbs correctly.
A pronoun is a type of word (or part of a word) that can substitute and/or define the noun. It does not have its own meaning but takes it from the noun which is being replaced in the sentence. Pronouns in Spanish have gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural).
Types of pronouns: personal pronouns | demonstrative pronouns | relative pronouns | interrogative and exclamatory pronouns | undefined pronouns
Subject Pronouns in Spanish
PERSONAL PRONOUNS (PRONOMBRES PERSONALES)
| Persona | Pronombres | |
|---|---|---|
| Singular | 1a | Yo |
| 2a | Tú | |
| 3a | El/ella | |
| Plural | 1a | Nosotros/nosotras |
| 2a | Vosotros/vosotras | |
| 3a | Ellos/ellas |
El: the third person ‘él’ has accent except when capital letter.
Usted: this is is the formal use when talking to someone we do not know or generally to used to speak to older people (who are not family or friends).
Example: ¿ Sabe usted dónde puedo encontrar una farmacia? Do you know where I can find a pharmacy?
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