In this unit you will learn to talk about and describe your family, tell your age, tell how old everyone is and will learn possessive adjectives.
Objectivos
- Describe families
- Talk about celebrations and parties
- Ask and tell ages
- Express possession
- Understand cultural perspectives on family and celebrations
Vocabulario
- cumpleaños
- [tener] 16 años
- mayor – menor
- mi hermano
- tu primo
- las personas
- las fotos
- el regalo
- la cámara
- la luz – las luces
- la piñata
- los globos
- el papel picado
- la flor
- el pastel
- los dulces
- las decoraciones
Más vocabulario
- el padrastro
- la madrastra
- el hermanastro
- la hermanastra
- mi medio hermano
- mi media hermana
Verbos
- preparar la fiesta
- celebrar el cumpleaños de Cristina
- sacar fotos
- hacer un video
- romper la piñata
- abrir los regalos
- tener # años
- ¡Feliz cumpleaños!
Gramática
[tener]
| yo | tengo | nosotros nostoras |
tenemos |
| tú | tienes | vosotros vostoras |
tenéis |
| Ud. él ella |
tiene | Uds. ellos ellas |
tienen |
Adjetivos posesivos
Possessive adjectives describe to whom something belongs. In English they are my, your (singular), its, his, her, and our, your (plural) and their. In English you don’t have to make them plural.
My friend is nice
My friends are nice.
In Spanish you have to make the possessive adjective plural if you are talking about more than one thing that.
Mi amigo es simpático.
Mis amigos son simpáticos.
Notice that my did not change in English when the sentence was referring to one or more friends. In Spanish, if you are speaking of more friends, the possessive adjective, along with everything else in the sentence needs to be plural. You don’t have to worry about gender unless you are using nuestro (our) or vuestro (your plural). Whether a possessive adjective is plural is determined by what is possessed. The subject of the sentence tells you which adjective to use, but the things that are owned are what determine if it it plural.
Mi carro es muy bonito.
Mis carros son muy bonitos.
| Singular subject pronouns |
Possessive adjectives | Singular possessive adjectives | Possessive adjectives |
| yo | mi – mis | nosotros nostoras |
nuestro – nuestros nuestra – nuestras |
| tú | tu – tus | vosotros vostoras |
vuestro – vuestros vuestra – vuestras |
| Ud. él ella |
su – sus | Uds. ellos ellas |
su – sus |
Practice activities
Quizlet vocabulary flashcards
[tener] tener practice quiz
Possessive adjectives video (mi/s, tu/s su/s)Possessive adjectives part 2 (nuestro/s, nuestras)