# Ustedes for everyone: no vosotros in Mexico

> id: regional.mx.ustedes · category: regional · depth: standard · levels: A1 · review: internally_reviewed

**Summary.** Mexico (like all of Latin America) has no vosotros. The plural 'you' is always ustedes — formal and informal alike — taking third-person-plural verbs: ustedes tienen, ¿ustedes vienen?

In the singular Mexico distinguishes tú (informal) from usted (formal), but in the plural that distinction collapses: there is only ustedes, used whether you are addressing your closest friends or a room of strangers. The Peninsular vosotros (vosotros tenéis, os, vuestro) simply does not exist in Mexican Spanish.

Ustedes always takes third-person-plural verb forms and the pronoun set les / se / los-las / su-sus: ustedes tienen, ¿a ustedes les gusta?, se lo doy a ustedes, su casa. There is no separate familiar plural conjugation to learn — one form covers everything.

For learners coming from Spain this is a simplification, not a complication: drop vosotros/-áis/-éis endings and os/vuestro entirely and route all plural address through ustedes. Mexicans understand vosotros (from media and the Bible) but never use it; it can even sound theatrical or archaic.

## Examples
- ¿Ustedes ya comieron? — Have you (all) eaten yet? *(Same form for friends and strangers alike.)*
- Chicos, ¿ustedes tienen la tarea? — Guys, do you have the homework? *(Informal group — still ustedes, not vosotros.)*
- Les traje algo a ustedes. — I brought you (all) something. *(les / a ustedes, never os.)*

Related: regional.mx.formality, regional.es.vosotros

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