Spanish Pronouns - Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

• Near the speaker ("this"): éste, ésta, esto, éstos, éstas (from the Latin )
• Near the listener ("that"): ése, ésa, eso, ésos, ésas (from the Latin )
• Far from both speaker and listener ("that (over there)"): aquél, aquélla, aquello, aquéllos, aquéllas (from the Latin )

N.B.: According to a decision of the Real Academia from the 1960s, the accents on these forms are only to be used when necessary to avoid ambiguity with the demonstrative determiners. However, the normal educated standard is still as above. Foreign learners may safely adhere to either standard.

Note also that there is never an accent on the neuter forms esto, eso and aquello (which do not have determiner equivalents).