Spanish Conversation · Level 3
87 words
Spanish word
nos
Pronunciation
IPA/nos/
Meaning
- pronounto us
Example
El profesor nos dio tarea.
The teacher gave homework to us.
More examples
Al final nos pidieron opinión sobre el proyecto.
In the end they asked us for our opinion about the project.
Core concept
An unstressed verb-clitic meaning 'us'.
Common phrases
nos explicaron la tarea
explained the homework to us
nos dieron las instrucciones
gave us the instructions
nos pidieron opinión
asked us for our opinion
Similar words
nosotros: Subject pronoun 'we' for speakers acting together as the sentence subject.
a nosotros: Prepositional pronoun 'to us' placed after a preposition to show the speakers as recipients.
nosotras: Subject pronoun 'we' for a group composed exclusively of women.
nosotros mismos: Emphatic phrase 'we ourselves' stressing that the speakers did the action personally.
Definition in Spanish
Designa la primera persona del plural que funciona como objeto directo, objeto indirecto o pronombre reflexivo para referirse a nosotros/nosotras.
Word origin
Taken unchanged from Latin nos 'us', it functions in modern Spanish as the weak first-person plural pronoun used with direct, indirect, and reflexive verbs.
Usage tips
- When nos attaches to an affirmative imperative or to an infinitive chain, it can shift stress and often forces a written accent on the verb, so attached pronouns affect pronunciation and accents.