More pronouns Flashcards
Nosotros
We
• Plural 1st person subject.
• Used for emphasis or to be extra specific.
*Joel brings the pandas to try and get the shepards tea.
• Joel holds a barrels of oats and tells the shepard that they (Joel and the pandas) all have oats [nosotros] stuck in their noses and that the steam from the tea will help to clear their noses.
Tú
You
• Subject pronoun
• The shepards name; he has two of everything.
• Tú eres [tall]
Él
He
Ella
She (AYE-ya)
Nos (3)
Us (3) 1. Direct object • e.g. "Us you smell (you smell us)." 2. Indirect object • e.g. To us or for us. 3. Reflexive • e.g. Us we see.
*Joel says to the shepard, “Do you smell us (Joel and pandas)? You smell us with your noses [nos].”
Esa
That (feminine)
Esta
This (feminine)
Ese
That (masculine)
Este
This (masculine)
Estos (gender?)
These (neuter; neither masc. nor fem.)
Nadie
Nobody - (nah-DEE-yay)
*Joel encounters a group of lost sheep in the swamp. He asks the sheep if they want to go back to the shepard with him, and they don’t respond.
• Joel gets mad and demands that they nod and and say “yay!”
• He’s mad because they didn’t nod or say yay [nadie], so he dismisses them as nobodies.
Nada
Nothing
• Opposite of ‘todo/todos’
Algo
Something – e.g. “Something (algo) was in the water”
*The sheep didn’t want to go with Joel because they were scared of the water.
• Then the sheep all go [algo] because they got spooked by ‘something’ they saw in the water.
Todos (2)
Everybody, all (plural masculine)
– e.g. “Todos los hombres” (All the men)
Alguien (2)
- Somebody, e.g. “I need somebody to help me”
- Someone, e.g. “Someone once told me that”
* Joel realizes all of his money, yen, is missing. He sees somebody (a man) lurking in the swamp and thinks that they have stolen all his yen [alguien].
