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Originally Posted by Vonderbach
Thank you Perikles! So the article and pronoun for masculine are the same?
Él nino come = The boy eats
Él come = He eats
Correct?
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Well, not correct really, the difference being the accent (which is there to specify the difference)
definite artice
the is el, la or lo depending on gender
personal pronoun: él
Because the verb ending tells you exactly who (say) is eating, Spanish omits the personal pronoun because it is often unnecessary.
So: (el) come
he eats
el niño come
the boy eats
But if you were emphasing that
he was eating but
she wasn't, then: él come
As for accents, I think it correct that they are very important because they are there to avoid ambiguity between words otherwise identical. In addition, they tell you how a word is pronounced.