Learn how to use the Spanish relative cuyo
To express whose + noun in Spanish we use the relative adjective cuyo.
Have a look and listen to the following examples:
Roberto, cuyo hijo va al colegio de mi hija, es abogado.Roberto, whose son goes to my daughter's school, is a lawyer.
Note that these nouns can also be preceded by a preposition, although depending on which preposition is needed, the translation then would not be as straightforward as whose and it would sound very formal and old-fashioned in English:
Regardless of the gender and number of the possessor, the first part of the adjective remains the same:
cuy-
But the endings will vary in accordance with the possession:
(-o, -a, -os, -as)
Have a look at this table:
| Whose | Masculine possession |
Feminine possession |
|
Singular |
cuyo |
cuya |
|
Plural |
cuyos |
cuyas |
Remember that this adjective is formal.
More colloquially, we could express the same thing this way:
Andrea, cuya jefa es también mi jefa, es una buena compañera.
Andrea, que su jefa es también mi jefa, es una buena compañera.
or
Roberto, cuyo hijo va al colegio de mi hija, es abogado.
Roberto, que tiene un hijo que va al colegio de mi hija, es abogado.
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