Neuter Demonstrative Pronouns

Question

If a plural is needed of the neuter demonstrative pronouns are they the same as the masculine? Or the same except without a tilde? I was studying the page on the subject and it didn't show any plural for this form.
For example, if I want to ask,
What are these? > Que son estos?
What are those? > Que son esos?
What are those over there? > Que son aquellos?

Is that correct'

Answer 1

Quentin said:

Maybe we should put the accents back because she keeps discussing demontrative pronouns and you keep using demonstrative adjectives.

I changed to adjectives because those sentences sounded a bit weird with the pronouns in -a and in plural. You are asking what are those feminine items, but, how on Earth do you know the grammatical gender of a word, if you don't know what the word is'

Good point. Thats why we have neuter pronouns. - EL_MAG0, AGO 13, 2011

Answer 2

Quentin is right, the words used by Lazarus are grammatically speaking adjectives except for his first sentence). However, as he mentions, the form itself it the same. They do agree on gender and number with the noun.

¿Qué son esos?

¿Qué son aquellos'

Answer 3

Yes:

¿Qué es esto?
¿Qué es esta cosa?
¿Qué son estos objetos?
¿Qué son estas cosas?
¿Qué son aquellas cosas?

These pronouns were required to have an accent before 1998, but orthography rules have changed, and now these accents are only used to prevent misunderstandings.

Answer 4

Well, you need an inverted question mark, and an accent on "qué":

¿Qué...?

Otherwise, your sentences are grammatically correct: "qué" is an invariant pronoun (i.e. it never changes). Nevertheless, your questions would sound a bit more natural like this:

¿Qué son estas/esas/aquellas cosas? (assuming we're talking about things, of course)

Answer 5

Maybe we should put the accents back because she keeps discussing demontrative pronouns and you keep using demonstrative adjectives.

¿Qué son estas/esas/aquellas cosas? (assuming we're talking about things, of course)

¿Qué es esta cosa?
¿Qué son estos objetos?
¿Qué son estas cosas?
¿Qué son aquellas cosas?

¿Qué es esto? (pronoun)

lazarus1907 said:

These pronouns were required to have an accent before 1998, but orthography rules have changed, and now these accents are only used to prevent misunderstandings.

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Answer 6

When I am typing on Word I use accents and inverted question marks with easy, but they are such a pain anywhere else. Anyway, so to be perfectly clear...
plural of the pronoun eso is esos, of esto is estos, and of aquello is aquellos, all without written accents, right'