Pronouns & Articles Notes

The 12 Personal Subject Pronouns of Spanish

• yo — I.
• tú — you (singular familiar)
• usted — you (singular formal)
• él, ella — he, she.
• nosotros, nosotras — we.
• vosotros, vosotras — you (plural familiar)
• ustedes — you (plural formal)
• ellos, ellas — they.

Definite and Indefinite Articles

Number	Gender	Form
singular	masculine	el
singular	feminine	la
plural	masculine	los
plural	feminine	las

singular	masculine	un
singular	feminine	una
plural	masculine	unos
plural	feminine	unas

In Spanish there are two genders: masculine and feminine. Every noun (note that this gender concept only applies to nouns) has one of these two genders. How to determine what gender it has isn’t very hard. And can be explained using a number of guidelines:

• Nouns ending in O are usually masculine.
• Nouns ending in A are usually feminine
• Nouns ending in MA are masculine
• Nouns ending in DAD, TAD, TUD, IÓN, EZ and UMBRE are feminine
• Others ending on a consonant are usually masculine