Visit Spain
Vocabulary
Let's start off with the vocab words in these lessons!
Subject Pronouns
What is Vosotros?
If you have spent most of your time in Latin America or studying Latin American Spanish, it is likely that you don't have much experience with this pronoun. Check out these must-knows before we delve into the details!
- Vosotros is a second-person plural subject pronoun that is only used in Spain and has its own set of verb endings.
- Vosotros is used to address a group of men only or a group made up of men and women. Even if there are ninety-nine women and only one man in a group, you still use vosotros.
Vosotros vs. Ustedes
The use of vosotros is a major grammatical difference between Spanish in Spain and Latin American Spanish.
- In Spain, vosotros is used when you are talking to group of friends, peers, pets, children, or close family members. In other words, it is used to address a group of people informally.
- In Spain, ustedesis used to address a group of people formally. For example, a group of people older than you or people you don’t know well.
- Since most Latin American countries do not use vosotros, ustedes is used in both informal and formal situations.
Possessive Adjectives
The possessive adjectives that match vosotros/vosotras are the following:
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Prepositions
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Verbs
In this skill, you learn the vosotros form of the following verbs!
Remember that verbs like empezar a, poder, querer, and saber are often followed by the infinitive form of a verb.
Vosotros and Verbs Like Gustar
In this skill, you learn the vosotros form of the following verbs that are conjugated like the verb gustar!
With verbs like gustar, the subject of the sentence is the thing being liked, while the thing doing the liking is expressed via an indirect object. In this case, the “thing doing the liking” is vosotros, expressed by the indirect object os. Note that you can begin the phrase with a vosotros, or it can be omitted.
Read more about verbs like gustar in this article.
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| doler | to hurt | os duele | os duelen |
| encantar | to love | os encanta | os encantan |
| gustar | to like | os gusta | os gustan |
Vosotros and the Present Progressive
Remember that the present progressive is also called the present continuous.
To use the present progressive in the vosotros form, simply use the verb estáis plus the present participle of the verb. For example:
Vosotros and the Informal Future
Remember that the informal future is also called the periphrastic future. Read more about the informal future in this article.
To use the informal future in the vosotros form, simply use the verb vais plus a and the infinitive of the verb. For example:
Vosotros and Commands
We learn the vosotros command form, or imperative, of two verbs in this lesson:
Verb Phrase
In this skill, you learn the following verb phrase!
The verb coger is frequently used in Spain to indicate that you’re taking public transportation. The use of coger—in the context of public transportation—is not as common in some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, where tomar is often used.
Quiz Yourself!
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Spanish Conversation
Fantastic! Let's put the grammar and vocab from above to the test in the following example of a conversation in Spanish.
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