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Relative Pronouns and Expressions in Spanish

Note that the Spanish equivalent of question word whose is ¿De quién? [or ¿De quiénes? if a plural

answer is expected]: ¿De quién es ese coche? (Whose car is that?). ¿De quiénes son todos estos abrigos?

(Whose are all these coats?).

Other relatives: cuando (

when

), donde (

where

), etc. These words may also serve as relatives just as

their English counterparts. The same as with the proceding relatives, no written accent mark is used since

they are not being used as question words.

¿Recuerdas cuando

Do you remember when [the time when, the occasion on which] we

descibrimos esa caverna?

discovered that cave?

El pueblo donde crecí ya no

The town where I grew up [= in which I grew up] no longer exists.

existe.

the one(s) who/that

Additional usage: Quien, el que as

. In a previous section, lo que was used as

“what” (when it is not question word) or “that which”, “the thing that”: Lo que hiciste me impresionó

mucho (What you did impressed me a lot). Quien or quienes can be used in the same way for persons, and el

que and its various forms can be used for both persons and things.

Quien [o: El que] duerme mucho pierde

Whoever [or: The one who, He who] sleeps a lot

mucho.

misses a lot.

Las que dan a luz, dan luz al mundo.

Those [women] who give birth, enlighten the world.

No me gusta ese cuadro. Los que vimos

I don't like that painting. The ones we saw in the

en el museo son mucho mejores.

museum are much better.

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