A Brief Look at Spanish Indefinite Adjectives The best way to answer this question is by taking a look at Spanish indefinite adjectives, first. So if we have indefinite pronouns and indefinite adjectives, how can we distinguish between them? Indefinite words want to hang with the cool kids so they conform to the pattern and act the same way. If you have studied pronouns before, you might have noticed that almost every pronoun can act as an adjective. The nouns they substitute will not always be defined or specific, so the name kind of makes sense.īut before we start digging too deep, let’s start from the beginning. More specifically, these types of pronouns-ones that refer to vague or unknown people, objects, animals and thoughts are called indefinite pronouns. As you have seen, you might know the noun that they are referring to, or you might not. These words are pronouns since they can substitute any noun. No sugar, no nothing.īastante and nada can really mean anything! Or she might be speaking about something as simple as her coffee: She has enough milk and she does not need anything else. Love? Why not! Perhaps she has two children and a loving husband, so she feels so loved she does not need anything else in this world. She might have enough money to pay the rent and she does not need anything else to be happy. They can literally refer to millions of things!
We have no idea what bastante (enough) and nada (nothing, not anything) stand for. Let’s take a moment to analyze the mysterious example from the introduction. (Download) The Hidden Meanings of Spanish Indefinite Pronouns
This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. This makes them immensely intriguing.Īnd, as you will see in this post, Spanish indefinite pronouns make it easy to hide-or maybe show that you do not actually know-what you are talking about. They can help us hide someone’s (or something’s) identity. You can be chatting in the middle of hundreds of people and still feel confident that only you and a couple of friends know what you are talking about. What does she have? What does she not need any more of? It is a mystery! Imagine you are having a coffee near the beach in sunny Barcelona and you overhear a girl say the following: DecemIndefinite Pronouns in Spanish and How to Be Specifically General
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