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As demonstrative pronouns, este is masculine , esta is feminine, and esto is neuter. The first two are fairly clear, since they always refer to nouns with matching gender. However, unlike many other languages, Spanish has no nouns with neuter gender. However, expressed ideas, speech, and unidentified or unknown objects are all referred to using neuter pronouns. In these situations the grammatical element not a noun to which the pronoun refers is either neuter or its gender is unknown to the speaker.
Neuter pronouns are sometimes used to refer to objects with a defined gender, however this generally restricted to non-animate objects. That is to say, using neuter pronouns to refer to animals is not normal, and referring to a person with neuter pronouns is offensive. For example, if we're looking under the bonnet of a car, you might point and say "esto es el carburador" "este es el carburador" would be equally acceptable. In this circumstance, you might think of "esto es" as "this thing is".
However, you would never say "esto es nuestro invitado". Este and esta are also used as determiners, as in "este chico" or "esta chica". I remember how frustrating this was for me when I started. Then a few lessons along I began noticing esta. At first I thought it was a typo. Then it slowly dawned on me that the presence or lack of an accent mark made a difference in the usage of the word.
I think I spent nearly an entire day researching this. Jo April 1, This is a very helpful discussion! Steven, am I correct in thinking your three examples translate as follows: My house is here.
Robert-C7 April 1, Those translations are correct. Matthew-H68 April 1, I'm only in the 3rd section of lessons on level 1, but this conversation has helped me understand the language a little better.
I've not spoken with some friends, who are native speakers or some family members who are living in Mexico just yet, but hope to do so soon. These were part of the corrections from the RAE back in Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 1 year ago. Viewed 35k times. Improve this question. Alfredo Osorio Alfredo Osorio Also is grammatically incorrect because is a grave word. AlfredoO: I believe the accent on the first e used to be required for demonstrative pronouns when the e was lowercase, but it sounds like RAE changed that so it's only necessary in case of ambiguity.
Maybe that's worth another question though. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. MikMik MikMik 5, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Specially the answer to the question is on the sentence that starts with Besides, In English: "is".
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