Demonstrative and possessive determinants

According to him Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (DRAE), the determinant is a "class of words whose elements determine the noun or the nominal group and are generally placed in a prenominal position". In Spanish there are different types of determinants, among which are: definite determinants, demonstrative determinants, exclamatory determinants, indefinite determinants, interrogative determinants, possessive determinants and the determinants Relative Among all of them, in this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to study the Demonstrative Determinants and Possessive Determinants with Various Examples from each of them.

The determinants, as we have said before, are words that, as their name suggests, determine or specify the reality named by the noun they precede. In this way, the determinants provide information regarding the situation of the noun in time and space and also the membership of said noun.

Following this same idea, the demonstrative determinants are those determinants that accompany the noun indicating the proximity or distance with respect to the people who participate in the discourse.

In Spanish, the paradigm of demonstrative determinants is as follows: this, that, that, this, that, that, these, those, those, these, those Y those. Next we will see some examples of demonstrative determinants:

• This car runs a lot.
• That girl is my sister.
• Those are not your neighbors?
• See you tonight at 10pm at the corner bar.
• I don't like that face, what's wrong with you?
• Those shirts are not mine, they belong to my older cousin.
• These guys don't know anything about life.
• This winter has rained very little compared to the previous one.
• Are these keys yours or are they yours?
• Those bikes there seem to be abandoned.
• Do you see someone leaning out of that window over there?
• I still remember that time when I played soccer until nightfall in my town.
• Give me a cookie, please. Which one do you want: this one, that one or that one? This one, the chocolate one.
• Our anniversary is September 7th.

In this other lesson you will discover all the types of determinants in Spanish.

The possessive determiners are those types of determiners that, in addition to preceding the noun delimiting it, they point to belonging of the same with respect to the person who speaks and to the other participants in the communicative situation. The paradigm of possessive determiners in Spanish is divided into two subgroups:

• Possessive determinants of a single possessedr: my, my, you, your, his, hers.
• Possessive determinants of several possessors: ours, ours, our, our, yours, yours, yours, yours, his, hers.

Below we propose a series of sentences as an example of how possessive determiners are used in Spanish:

• My work is better than yours.
• I like your drawing more than his.
• My brother defends his doctoral thesis next week.
• Our strategy is the best in the company.
• Is your apartment in the center of Barcelona or do you live on the outskirts?
• Every morning I hear his alarm clock at 8 o'clock.
• My dresses are more expensive and elegant than yours.
• Our neighbor has a dog named Pancho.
• We are angry about the works our neighbors are doing in their house.
• Have you written this? This letter looks like yours.

In this other lesson from a PROFESSOR we discover you examples of determinants in spanish.