Word
Nuestro grupo está muy unido.
Meaning
Our group is very close-knit.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Nuestro grupo está muy unido.
Why is it nuestro and not nosotros?
Nosotros means we (a subject pronoun: we are, we go, we speak).
Nuestro means our (a possessive adjective: our group, our house).
In Nuestro grupo está muy unido, you need a word that shows possession of grupo (whose group?), so you use nuestro = our.
If you used nosotros, the sentence would be ungrammatical because you’d be putting a subject pronoun in front of a noun.
Why is there no article (el, la) before nuestro grupo?
In Spanish, when you use a possessive adjective like mi, tu, su, nuestro, you normally do not add a definite article:
- Mi casa (not la mi casa) – my house
- Nuestro grupo (not el nuestro grupo) – our group
The possessive already gives the specificity that the article would give, so you don’t say el nuestro grupo in standard Spanish.
Why is unido masculine and singular? The group has men and women.