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Adjective Agreement

Gender and number

Open Ended

What do you remember about the gender of nouns?

Gender of nouns

• As you know, ALL nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine

• Adjectives must agree with the gender of noun, usually by changing to 'o' or 'a'

• E.G. un laboratorio moderno y una piscina antigua

• Adjectives that end in an 'l' or the letter 'e' don't change (for example, grande)

Number of nouns

• Adjectives must also agree with the 'number' of a noun

• Nouns can be singular (only one)

• Or nouns can be plural (more than one)

• E.G. unos laboratorios modernos y unas piscinas antiguas

• If the adjective ends in a consonant, add 'es' (e.g. útiles)

Multiple Choice

El and La are for singular words

• Cierto (true)

• Falso (false)

True!

El and la are for singular nouns, and you can also use un and una to say 'one', 'a' or 'an'.

Multiple Choice

Los and las are the only way to express plural words

• Cierto (true)

• Falso (false)

False!

You can use the definite articles los and las as well as the indefinite articles unos and unas for plural in general. You can also use the specific number. For example tres, cuatro, veinte...

Agreement

• When using adjectives to describe, they must agree in both gender AND number

• This means you need to add an 's' or 'es' to make adjectives plural

• 'es' is added when the adjectives ends in a consonant

Examples with s and es

• Singular --> plural

• bonito --> bonitos

• interesante --> interesantes

• facíl --> facíles

Multiple Select

Tick all the plural words in the list.

• feos

• útil

• divertidos

• aburridas

• grande

To recap

• Adjectives are words which describe nouns or pronouns

• In Spanish, all adjectives MUST agree in number and gender with the nouns they describe

• Gender: nouns are either masculine or feminine

• Number: nouns are either singular or plural

Test yourself!

Answer the questions to show the correct form of the adjective.

Multiple Choice

La clase

• bonito

• bonita

• bonitos

• bonitas

Multiple Choice

Los laboratorios

• moderno

• moderna

• modernos

• modernas

Multiple Choice

Un campo de fútbol

• grando

• grande

• granda

• grandes

Open Ended

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