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What Is “Vosotros” and When Do You Use It?

Duolingo Blog·Cindy Blanco, Ph.D.·3 days ago
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Welcome to another week of Dear Duolingo, an advice column just for language learners. Catch up on past installments here . We’re back this week with another learner-inspired Dear Duolingo post! We’ve gotten a number of similar questions about this topic, and it’s one I remember thinking about a lot, when I first traveled to Spain: This week’s question: Ahh, vosotros —that’s the form of “y’all” used in Spain! What is it, why is it there, and do you need to know it? When I studied Spanish in school in the U.S., one year we needed to know vosotros and the next we didn’t, and it was always back and forth like that. You’d sort of see it in textbooks, but it was often skipped, and I was mostly told to ignore it… and then I studied abroad in Spain. Today we’ll get into Spanish verb forms and how vosotros fits in. It’ll be a quick tour through pronouns, etymology, and Spanish dialects! Ok, ¿estáis listos?…

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