Spanish nouns

Spanish nouns

gender and plurality of nouns

defenition:

Nouns and articles:

A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. In Spanish, every noun has a gender, either MASCULINE OR FEMININE. Nouns can be singular or plural. How do you know whether a noun is masculine or feminine/singular or plural? You can look at the ARTICLE. Every noun has an article. Here are the articles:

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  1. DEFINITE ARTICLE: the

  
  

  el-goes with a singular masculine noun los-goes with a plural masculine nouns

       la-goes with a singular feminine noun    las-goes with a plural feminine nouns

  
  

  Take a look at your copy sheet and notice that all the nouns are assigned a gender with the words el/la/los/las in front of them.

  
  

  
  

• 2. INDEFINITE ARTICLE: a/an/some

  
  

  un-goes with a singular masculine noun unos-goes with a plural masculine noun

  una-goes with a singular feminine noun  unas-goes with a plural feminine noun

Many nouns end in the letters “o” or “a”. USUALLY nouns ending in “o” are masculine and nouns ending in “a” are feminine. The gender of a noun must be memorized.  

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Multiple Choice

Choose the best adjective to describe the word PRIMOS.

• feliz

• felice

• felices

• felize

Multiple Choice

Choose the best adjective to describe the word AMIGA.

• contento

• contenta

• contentos

• contentas

Multiple Select

Choose the MASCULINE nouns:

• tijeras

• amgio

• escritorio

• padre

Multiple Select

Choose the FEMININE nouns:

• ciudad

• madre

• hermano

• manzana

Multiple Choice

If a noun ends in a consonant, how do you make it plural?

• add an "s"

• add "es"

• add "ces"

• it stays the same

Multiple Choice

If a noun ends in a vowel, how do you make it plural?

• add an "s"

• add "es"

• it stays the same

• add "is"

Multiple Choice

Words that end in "a" but come from Greek are...

• masculine

• feminine

Multiple Choice

CIERTO O FALSO: Words that end in ción, sión, tad, dad, and umbre are almost always masculine.

• CIERTO

• FALSO

Multiple Choice

Most words that end in "a" are usually...

• masculine

• female

• feminine

• not real words

Multiple Choice

In Spanish, every noun has gender: they are either...

• male or female

• masculine or feminine

• right or wrong

• singular or plural