The demonstrative adjectives

Question 1

What are the demonstrative adjectives?

Answer 1

Demonstrative adjectives point out a thing or person in relation to the location to the speaker and they are translated as this, that, these, and those.

For example,

this book

these students

that laptop

those notebooks

Question 2

What are the most important elements I need to

remember about the demonstrative adjectives?

Answer 2

There are five elements of the demonstrative adjectives:

1- the speaker who points out the thing or person

2- the thing or person that the speaker points out

3- the distance between the speaker and the thing or person

4- the gender and number of the thing or person

5- the placement of the demonstrative adjective

Question 3

What are the demonstrative adjectives?

Answer 3

Near Middle Far

S / M este ese aquel

S / F esta esa aquella

P / M estos esos aquellos

P / F estas esas aquellas

S = singular P = plural M = masculine F = feminine

Question 4

What are the equivalents of the demonstrative in

English?

Answer 4

These are the translations:

1) este & esta = this
2) estos & estas = these
3) ese & esa = that
4) esos & esas = those
5) aquel & aquella = that over there
6) aquellos & aquellas = those over there

Question 5

Where does the demonstrative adjective goes?

Answer 5

The placement of the demonstrative adjective is the same as in English. The demonstrative adjective goes before the noun.

demonstrative adjective + noun

For example, estos chicos

estas casas