Describe family members: possessive adjective 'su'
Learning outcomes
I can use possessive adjectives 'mi(s)' and 'su(s)' to say what my and someone else's family members are like and what they do.
I can use the 1st person preterite ending -qué to keep the hard 'c' sound in verbs like 'sacar'.
- Year 8
Describe family members: possessive adjective 'su'
Learning outcomes
I can use possessive adjectives 'mi(s)' and 'su(s)' to say what my and someone else's family members are like and what they do.
I can use the 1st person preterite ending -qué to keep the hard 'c' sound in verbs like 'sacar'.
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Key learning points
- The preterite is used to describe completed past events. For the 'I' form with -ar verbs, you remove the -ar and add -é.
- For -ar verbs ending in -car, remove -car and add -qué for the 'I' form in the preterite, e.g. 'saqué' - 'I took out'.
- To talk about a mixed-gender group of people, you use the masculine form of the noun, e.g. ‘mis hermanos'.
- In Spanish, the possessive adjective 'my' is 'mi' before a singular noun, and 'mis' before a plural noun.
- The possessive adjective 'his', 'her' or 'its' is 'su' before a singular noun, and 'sus' before a plural noun.
Keywords
Preterite - tense used for completed events in the past
Possessive adjective - shows who something belongs to
Su - his, her, its (singular), possessive adjective
Sus - his, her, its (plural), possessive adjective
Common misconception
To talk about completed events in the past with -ar verbs you always take off the -ar ending and add -é in the 1st person singular ('I').
For -ar verbs ending in -car, you remove the -car and add -qué in the 1st person singular, for example; 'sacar' - 'saqué' - 'I took out'.
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