Spanish Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

Spanish Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

In this presentation, you will learn about two new grammar topics. This presentation includes quiz questions throughout and at the end. Feel free to take your own notes as you go.

Personal pronouns are the ones we use to talk about people.

In English, we use: I, you, he, she, we, and they.

In Spanish, there's a little bit more to know.

Personal Pronouns

Match

Match the following English to Spanish pronouns.

• I

• You (informal)

• You (formal)

• She

• They

Yo

Tú

Usted

Ella

Ellas

• Yo

• Tú

• Usted

• Ella

• Ellas

In Spanish, there are 5 total yous.

2 informal yous vary by location.

You may have noticed a lot of yous!

Additionally, usted is the formal you.

Ustedes means you all and is the plural form, for addressing any group. Vosotros is like ustedes, but used in Spain.

Drag and Drop

The informal way to say you that we learned first is ​

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. The formal or polite way to say you is ​

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. Another way to say you to one person in some countries is ​

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. To talk to a group of people or say you all, use ​

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, unless you are in Spain in which case you would use ​

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,

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

tú

usted

vos

ustedes

vosotros

Third person forms

For a group of all females, use ellas to say they.

For mixed groups or only males, use ellos.

Plural

We already learned él is he, ella is she, and elle is they singular.

Use these to talk about someone else.

Singular

Possessive Adjectives

• Use possessive pronouns to talk about anything that belongs to someone.

• In English, we use: my, your, his, her, our, and their.

• In Spanish, you MUST use one of these to show ownership. Apostrophes are NOT used in Spanish.

Possessive Adjectives

When you use a possessive adjective, it must agree in gender and number with what belongs to the person.

Notice that su(s) is the form for her, his, and their.

Using Possessive Adjectives

Match

Match the following personal adjectives to the items they match in gender and number.

• Mis

• Nuestras

• Tu

amigos

casas

libro

• amigos

• casas

• libro

Open Ended

How would you say: Her friends are Panamanian?

Review before the quiz!

The following slides have multiple choice questions for you to demonstrate what you learned. Feel free to go back first if you need to.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a personal pronoun?

• tú

• vos

• ustedes

• nosotros

• su

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a possessive adjective?

• tú

• su

• nuestro

• mi

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be the correct way to say our before the word estudios?

• nuestro

• nuestra

• nuestros

• nuestras

Multiple Choice

Which word means we?

• ustedes

• nosotros

• nuestros

• vosotros

Multiple Choice

Cierto o falso: If you don´t want to use a possessive adjective, you can just use an apostrophe instead.

• cierto

• falso

Multiple Choice

Cierto o falso: There are five ways to say you in Spanish.

• cierto

• falso

Open Ended

Use this slide to summarize your learning on the topics of Spanish personal pronouns and possessive adjectives.