This lesson is going to be jam packed full of stuff guys. I hope you like it.
This time I wanted to get into the different types of personal pronouns.
And in English we have I, you, he or she, we, and they.
Those are the big ones.
In Spanish we have are a couple more.
The reason this is is because the Spanish language likes to explain gender in its words.
So they’ll be gender specific.
This means, that I have yo.
Yo is I.
Tú is you.
We also went over that usted could also mean you if it's formal.
Tú is informal.
Familiar.
If you know somebody.
Usted will be used for people that we don’t necessarily know.
Or they’re older, etc and we respect them.
Then we have él for he.
Ella for she.
For us it would be nosotros.
And if we are only girls we would say nosotras.
We’ll also use ellos for they (the guys), ellas for they (the girls) and ustedes for
ya’ll, you all, plural you. If you will.
In Spain they’re going to use for you all or ya’ll vosotros for guys or groups of guys and girls
Or vosotras.
I am not really going to focus on the Spain stuff though guys because I live in
United States and most of the people that I know that are Hispanic are from Central and South America
So the Spanish that I use does not include vosotros.
And I don’t think it’s too useful considering only one country uses it.
So I am not going to focus on that in this video lesson.
But either way, we have yo, tú, él, ella,
usted
And of course we have the plural of él would be ellos.
The plural of ella, ellas.
And ustedes.
Nosotros.
For girls, nosotras.
Something interesting about Spanish though.
We have the plurals.
For example we have nosotros and we also have ellos.
These of course are for males. Right?
If we have more than one guy, él becomes ellos.
Yo and someone else maybe would become nosotros. We the guys.
I try to explain it this way with my students.
That if in Spanish it’s kind of a machista culture.
I don't know if you've heard of the word machista or macho.
And so this means that the guys have at least the appearance of being in control.
So if you have a group of guys it’s ellos.
But if you have a group of guys and girls, it's still going to be that the guy dominates in the word.
So we'll have ellos still for they (the guys and the girls).
And then of course people will say, “Well, Señor Jordan,
what if you have 25,000 girls and one guy? What if?”
Well here’s the thing.
The guy still dominates.
Because you have to make sure he’s included in that.
So it's still going to be ellos.
And also for nosotros it’s the same way.
We the guys nosotros.
But as soon as you add girls in there and stuff, it will still be nosotros.
It’s just the way the language works.
So these are the personal pronouns.
Again we have: yo (I), tú (you), usted (you [sir or madam]), él (he), ella (she),
nosotros (we the guys), nosotras (we the girls), ellos (they guys or they guys and girls),
ellas (they the girls) and ustedes (you all).
And then in Spain we will use vosotros and vosotras for you all.
Both male and female.
I hope this lesson has helped you at least in the personal pronouns portion of Spanish.
I know it’s still basic stuff but we'll get into some advanced stuff
a little bit later in the next lesson. ¡Adiós!