aquellos
See also: aquéllos
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /aˈkeʝos/ [aˈke.ʝos]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /aˈkeʎos/ [aˈke.ʎos]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aˈkeʃos/ [aˈke.ʃos]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈkeʒos/ [aˈke.ʒos]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝos
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎos
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃos
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒos
- Syllabification: a‧que‧llos
Pronoun
aquellos m pl (demonstrative)
- Alternative spelling of aquéllos; those ones (over there; implying some distance). The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.
Determiner
aquellos m pl (demonstrative)
See also
Spanish personal pronouns
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
Further reading
- “aquellos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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