Subject Pronouns / Pronombres Personales Subjetivos - Learn Spanish with Polly Lingual

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Also called personal pronouns, Spanish subject pronouns tell you who is doing the action of a sentence.

They are especially important in Spanish because the conjugation of verbs changes depending on the subject.

In English, subject pronouns are words such as "you", "we" and "it".

Spanish, however, is slightly more complicated because it uses gender and formality. For example "you" can translate as tú (informal) and usted (formal), and "we" can translate as nosotros (masculine and neutral) and nosotras (feminine).

Simplifying it somewhat though, Spanish has no subject pronoun for "it", which is generally implied in the sentence.

In fact, subject pronouns in general are often implied by the verb form and can be dropped from the sentence. For instance, instead of saying tú eres amable (you are friendly), you can simply eres amable, as eres implies tú.

Singular	First-person	yo I
	Second-person	tú you informal
	Third-person	usted you formal él he ella she
Plural	First-person	nosotros we masculine nosotras we feminine
	Second-person	vosotros you all masculine informal Spain vosotras you all Spain
	Third-person	ustedes you all formal ellos they masculine ellas they feminine