📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 19 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 4 · Los relativos complejos
Cuyo — whose
Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 19 of 30: Cuyo means whose, and B2 needs it. On this page: 10 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
cuyo
whose (m)
KOO-yoh
cuya
whose (f)
KOO-yah
el hombre
the man
ehl OHM-breh
el hombre cuya hija es médica
the man whose daughter is a doctor
ehl OHM-breh KOO-yah EE-hah ehs MEH-dee-kah
la posesión
the possession
lah poh-seh-SYOHN
el libro del que hablo
the book I am talking about
ehl LEE-broh dehl keh AH-bloh
hablar de
to talk about
ah-BLAR deh
acordarse de
to remember
ah-kohr-DAR-seh deh
frecuente
frequent
freh-KWEHN-teh
la confusión
the confusion
lah kohn-foo-SYOHN
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
Cuyo means whose, and B2 needs it. It agrees with the thing POSSESSED, not with the owner: el hombre cuya hija es médica — the man whose daughter is a doctor (cuya, because hija is feminine). Cuyo, cuya, cuyos, cuyas.
Y también · And also
Careful with what follows: no article after cuyo — cuya hija, never cuya la hija. And for talking-about, Spanish uses del que: el libro del que hablo (the book I am talking about — hablar DE), la película de la que me acuerdo (acordarse DE).
Ojo · Watch out
cuyo agrees with the thing possessed, never with the owner: el hombre cuya hija. No article after it: cuya hija, never cuya la hija. English whose misleads here every time.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with cuyo.
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 19 in Module 9 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.