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I'm Timothy, and this is

Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn a few new

essential adjectives that are used all the time in

Spanish. We'll start with the word mi'ismo. Like most adjectives, this word changes based on whether

you're describing something that's masculine or feminine, so it can be either mi'emois or

misma. This word roughly means same,

but it has a wider variety of uses than the English word.

Here's a simple use where Misma clearly means same.

They were all in the same house.

All Estaban in the Misma Casa. No. same house. But Mismo is also often used to reference something's self, emphasizing what it itself is.

For example, check out this English sentence, he himself has to be there. What does himself mean in this

sentence? By default, you might think about reflexive pronouns, words like se and nos, which we learned

mean things like himself, herself, and ourselves. But those words have to be used right before a

verb when someone is doing something to themselves. In this sentence, he himself has to be there.

He's not doing anything to himself. Instead, the word himself is being used to emphasize that we're talking

about him and only him, nobody else. In Spanish, in these situations, instead of using a

reflexive pronoun, you use the word Mismo. So here's that sentence in Spanish.

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