You and me, me and you…
You already know the most important things about nouns.
Ahora (now), we are going to see the personal pronouns so that you can start to form sentences, because … how are you going to talk to people if you don’t know how to call them? OK, here we go.
Note que (that) for the three persons in the plural hay (there is) a masculine and a feminine form, depending on whether we are talking about men or women.
If we talk about a mixed group, the masculine is siempre (always) used. But nowadays that’s changing, right? 😉
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Él is accentuated to distinguish it from the singular masculine artículo “el" that we have already seen. Example: Él tiene el camión (he has the truck)
USTED
When you are talking directly to a child, a relative, a friend, a peer, or a pet, you should use “tú”, the informal singular second persona (person).
But if you directly address someone older, a persona you don’t know, a superior, or someone to whom you would like to show respect, you should use usted in singular or ustedes in plural.
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Note that the formula of respect “usted" is conjugated as the third persona singular (él-ella) and plural (ellos-as), and not as the second (tú), even though you are addressing that persona directly.
Don't worry, we will see this later when we speak about conjugations.
OK, I won’t tell you to write down the personal pronouns, but it is important that you learn that. But anyway, you will learn them by doing all the ejercicios we are going to do later.
Ready for the next step? Great! Here we go!