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Los niños con sus mochilas, quienes eran de Valencia, me impresionaron = "The children with their rucksacks, who were from Valencia, impressed me" (the use of quienes makes it clear that los niños is referred to; que could refer to the rucksacks, the children, or both, los cuales would refer to either the children or both, and las cuales ...
Mi coche es más grande que el tuyo = "My car is bigger than yours" Tu casa tiene más cuartos que la suya = "Your house has more rooms than his/hers/yours/theirs" Estos libros son más interesantes que los vuestros = "These books are more interesting than yours [pl.]"
The first-person plural expressions nosotros, nosotras, tú y yo, or él y yo can be replaced by a noun phrase that includes the speaker (e.g. Los estudiantes tenemos hambre, 'We students are hungry'). The same comments hold for vosotros and ellos.
El voseo en la historia y en la lengua de hoy – Las fórmulas de tratamiento en el español actual (in Spanish) Hotta. Hideo (2000). La estandarización y el regionalismo en el voseo del español argentino (in Spanish) Roca, Luis Alberto (2007). Breve historia del habla cruceña y su mestizaje (in Spanish) Rosenblat, Ángel (2000).
Este mi amor = "This love of mine" Strictly speaking, the presence of the first determiner means that the possessive must be interpreted as an adjective rather than a determiner. Note however that the long adjectival form ( mío , tuyo , suyo , etc.), which is identical to the corresponding possessive pronoun , is not used in this construction ...
Spanish, also referred to as Castilian to differentiate it from other languages spoken in Spain, is an Indo-European language of the Italic branch. [1] Belonging to the Romance family, it is a daughter language of Latin, evolving from its popular register that used to be spoken on the Iberian Peninsula. [2]
In the plural form, no clusivity distinction is made. Siouan: Lojban: mi'o mi'a/mi Both There is also the form ma'a, which means the speaker, the listener, and others unspecified. However, the first-person pronoun mi take no number and can refer to any number of individuals in the same group; mi'a and mi'o are usually preferred. Constructed ...
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.