Questions & Answers about Tu camisa está aquí.
Why doesn't tu have an accent mark here?
In Spanish, tu (without an accent) is a possessive adjective meaning "your". If you add an accent mark, tú becomes the subject pronoun meaning "you". So, tu camisa means "your shirt", but you would use tú to say something like "you are" (tú eres).
Does tu change because camisa is a feminine word?
No. Unlike nuestro (our), which changes to nuestra for feminine words, tu (your), mi (my), and su (his/her/its/their/your formal) do not change based on gender. You use tu for both masculine and feminine things. For example, tu camisa (feminine) and tu zapato (masculine).
What if I wanted to say "Your shirts are here"?
Why do we use está instead of es in this sentence?
Está comes from the verb estar, which is used to talk about locations. Because the sentence is telling us where the shirt is (aquí, meaning "here"), we have to use estar. We would use es (from the verb ser) to describe the shirt's characteristics, like saying "Your shirt is red" (Tu camisa es roja).
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