How to use demonstrative pronouns in Spanish

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Spanish

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Spanish? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Spanish lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Spanish demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Spanish demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'este' or 'esta' in Spanish. The word 'este' is used with masculine words and the word 'esta' is used with feminine words.

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esta persona
this person
esta silla
this chair
esta casa
this house
esta mujer
this woman
este libro
this book
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Step 6 : Spanish demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns libro, silla and puerta (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Spanish demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Spanish demonstrative pronouns with the nouns libro, silla and puerta and the plural nouns libros, sillas and puertas you can move on to Step 7 (Spanish adjectives).

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