el ella usted ellos ellas ustedes
usted I believe is the formal way to address someone Spanish verbs >yo, tu, el, ella, usted,<
My question is how do you say >it< in spanish In english we say >I, you, he, she, it.<
how should I say
My cake fell and the dog ate it <
4 Answers
Spanish doesn't have a particular word for "it", but it can handle the English concept of "it". Sometimes it's rendered with el, lo or la and sometime with ello, él, ella.
More commonly, they just change the construction of the sentence from our English syntax.
They would take your sentence and reword it to "The cake fell and it was eaten by the dog. (active to passive voice.)
La tarta se cayó y se comió el perro.
La tarta se cayó y fue comida por el perro.
Notice that there is no pronoun used for "it" unless you wish to consider the se as referring to it.
It would be "lo" if you use a masculine word for cake or "la" if you use a feminine word for cake. As a direct object pronoun, your word "it" should match the gender of the noun it replaces. You might say la torta or el pastel for cake. So then use la or lo for the word "it."
Confused and frustrated, eh? It's simple amor...Your friends and people your age are tu. Your teachers, bosses, cops, etc are all usted. We (me and you and the people we are chilling with) are nosotros. Vosostros is nosotros (in Spain). Those people over there making to much noise are ellos, if they are all male or mixed, but those fine girls over there are ellas. All these words are used in actually spoken spanish words, on this side of the world, and vosotros is a Spain thing. Here's an example of usted: Quieren ustedes ir conmigo al cine? More examples: Quieren ir ustedes conmigo al cine? Quieres tu ir conmigo al cine? Quieren ellos ir con nostoros al cine? Queren ellas ir conmigo al cine? Just think of it as a big 'ole word game. Don't stress yourself out. And don't use my examples as perfect spanish, because they are not. They are just a visual example para usted! 
JohnJuan said
Vosostros is nosotros (in Spain)
That statement is confusing. Vosotros is "you" informal (plural) in Spain, not nosotros which is "we".
I believe that in the majority of other Spanish speaking countries, vosotros is not used and becomes ustedes, you formal (plural).
