📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 17 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 4 · Sentences that breathe
quien — the one you name
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 17 of 30: For a person after a preposition. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
quien
who (relative, after a preposition)
kyehn
la amiga con quien viajo
the friend I travel with
lah ah-MEE-gah kohn kyehn BYAH-hoh
la canción
the song
lah kahn-SYOHN
la canción que me gusta
the song that I like
lah kahn-SYOHN keh meh GOOS-tah
favorito
favorite (m)
fah-boh-REE-toh
mi canción favorita
my favorite song
mee kahn-SYOHN fah-boh-REE-tah
escuchar
to listen
ehs-koo-CHAR
famoso
famous (m)
fah-MOH-soh
el chico a quien conozco
the boy I know
ehl CHEE-koh ah kyehn koh-NOHS-koh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
For a person after a preposition, Spanish switches to quien: la amiga con quien viajo (the friend I travel with), el chico a quien conozco (the boy I know). Quien is only ever a person, and it has a plural: quienes.
Y también · And also
Without a preposition, que still does the job: la amiga que viaja conmigo. Quien is the more careful, written choice — the one an examiner notices. Notice again the personal a: a quien, because the person is the object of conocer.
Ojo · Watch out
quien is only for PEOPLE and mostly follows a preposition: con quien, a quien, de quien. A thing after a preposition takes el que or la que: la casa en la que vivo.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with quien.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 17 in Module 6 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.