Subject Personal Pronouns
Spanish has, like French, six ranks of personal pronouns divided into three singular pronouns and three plural pronouns. All can be subjects but they do not always have equivalents in French.
Here is a table showing the subject personal pronouns:
| Rank | Subject personal pronouns | Direct object pronouns | Indirect object pronouns | Pronouns preceded by a preposition | Reflexive pronouns |
| 1st pers. singular | yo | me | me | mí | me |
| 2nd pers. singular | tú | te | te | ti | te |
| 3rd pers. singular | él/ella/usted | le/lo/la | le | él/ella/ello/sí | se |
| 1st pers. plural | nosotros/nosotras | nos | nos | nosotros/nosotras | nos |
| 2nd pers. plural | vosotros/vosotras | os | os | vosotros/vosotras | os |
| 3rd pers. plural | ellos/ellas/ustedes | los/las | les | ellos/ellas/sí | se |
A particularity of Latin America in the use of pronouns is the use of voseo for the informal form. Moreover, the second person plural is less commonly used and the ustedes form is preferred.
Unlike French, the use of the subject personal pronoun is optional because the endings are sufficient in themselves. When they are used with their verb, this means that we are emphasizing a person to mark a contrast or when there may be confusion in the subjects when talking about several people:
Tú sales mientras que yo me quedo a dormir.
You go out while I stay to sleep.
The use of pronouns is not the same as in French:
- ¿Quién lo dice? - Yo (- Who says that? - I do)