Aquéllas

Aquéllas is the feminine plural form of the distant demonstrative in Spanish. It is used to refer to things or people that are far from both the speaker and the listener, and it can function as either a demonstrative determiner before a noun or as a demonstrative pronoun when used by itself to refer to previously mentioned items.

As a demonstrative determiner, aquéllas is typically written without an accent in modern orthography when preceding a noun: aquéllas montañas, aquéllas personas. In this use, the word modifies the noun and agrees in gender and number, signaling distance.

As a demonstrative pronoun, the form with the acute accent—aquéllas—is used when the word stands alone and refers back to a feminine plural antecedent: Prefiero aquéllas. The accent marks the word’s stress and clarifies its function as a pronoun rather than an adjective.

Relation to other forms: aquéllas belongs to a family of distal demonstratives in Spanish, including aquél, aquel, aquellas, and aquellos. The masculine and feminine plural forms contrast with nearer demonstratives like estas/esas (these/those nearby) and with aquellas (those over there) used as adjectives. The accented pronoun forms are generally described as the pronoun variants of the same base forms.

Etymology traces the word to the Latin demonstratives that evolved into the Spanish system of distal demonstratives. Usage varies by region and register, but the distinction between the accented pronoun form and the unaccented determiner form is commonly observed in standard Spanish grammar.