1. Demonstrative Adjectives. and Pronouns. Possessive Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

2. Demonstrative Adjectives
They must agree in gender and number with the noun!!!
Demonstrative Adjectives go in front of nouns.
esta camisa
este libro

3. Demonstrative Adjectives
Close to speaker or to describe a present time (aquí)
este/esta (this)
estos/estas (these)
Something far from the speaker but closer to the listener (allí, allá) or describe a recent period of time.
ese/esa (that)
esos/esas (those)

4. Demonstrative Adjectives
Far from speaker and listener (allá, en la distancia) or a moment in the remote past period of time
aquel/aquella (that)
aquellos/aquellas (those)

5. Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns replace the noun and must agree.
¿Quieres este libro?
No, quiero ése.
+They translate as “this one, that one, these ones, and those ones.”

6. Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns take an accent
This/These:
éste, ésta, éstos, éstas
That/Those:
ése, ésa, ésos, ésas
That/Those over there:
aquél, aquélla, aquéllos, aquéllas

7. Neuter Demonstrative Pronouns
The neuter (aka no gender) forms are used to refer to ideas, concepts, or situations (because they have no gender).
esto, eso, aquello
They can also be used to ask for the identification of something unknown to the person.
¿Qué es esto? What is this?

8. Short Possessive Adjectives
Short possessive adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun and always go in front of noun.
mi(s) (my) nuestro(a,os,as) (ours)
tu(s) (your) vuestro(a,os,as)
su(s) (his/her/yours/its) su(s) (theirs)

9. Short Possessive Adjectives
When su will lead to ambiguity it is preferable to use
de + name or subject pronoun
means
of + name or subject pronoun

10. Long Possessive Adjectives
Long possessive adjectives always go after the noun and must agree.
la camisa mía
el libro suyo
mío(a,os,as) (mine) nuestro(a,os,as) (ours)
tuyo(a,os,as) (yours) vuestro(a,os,as)
suyo(a,os,as) (his/hers/yours/its) suyo(a,os,as) (theirs)

11. de + name or subject pronoun
When suyo(a,os,as) will lead to ambiguity it is preferable to use
de + name or subject pronoun

12. Possessive Pronouns
Possessive pronouns are formed by adding el, la, los, las to the long possessive adjectives. They replace the noun and must agree with that noun.
¿Tienes el libro tuyo?
Sí, tengo el mío.