Spanish subject pronouns: Interesting tips
The most vital starting point in learning any grammar would invariably be the subject pronouns. So, here's a post dedicated to this very topic: Spanish subject pronouns.
Singular
yo I
tú you (familiar)
Usted or Ud. you (formal)
él he
ella she
Plural
nosotros we (masc.)
nosotras we (fem.)
vosotros you all (familiar-masc.)
vosotras you all (familiar-fem.)
Ustedes or Uds. you all (formal)
éllos they (masc.)
ellas they (fem.)
Now, the tricks to learn them: Always remember that a Spanish word ending in -a is mostly feminine and any ending in -o, masculine. So, this explains the nosotros-nosotras, the vosotros-vosotras, and the él-ella combos. Plurals are generally, like in English, made by adding -s or -es. But éls doesn't sound great to Spanish ears (Spanish rarely allows consonants together) so, we get a cleaner, ellos (remember, the -os makes it masculine) Same applies for ella-ellas too. tú rhymes so well with you that it's hard to forget its meaning.
Don't really bother about vosotros/-as unless you plan to learn European Spanish, because it is only used in Spain. Mnemonics:
yo (spells like you but means exactly the opposite!)
tú (rhymes with you)
nosotros (do you know this: we all have some hair in our nostrils!?)
él (He and él combine to become hell. Boys from hell!)
ella (rhymes with a feminine name, Stella)
Do these mnemonics work? If they don't for you, please suggest something better and I promise I'll incorporate them in my coming posts.
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Overuse of subject pronouns — the equivalent of words such as "he," "she" and "they" — is common among English speakers learning Spanish. It's important to remember that in Spanish the verb forms often make subject pronouns unnecessary, and when that's the case the pronouns shouldn't be used unless there's a reason to.
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Most notably, most verbs that are irregular in the future tense are irregular in the same way in the conditional form. For example, decir becomes diría in the first-person conditional and diré in the first-person future.
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