gender/number – spanish review

Gender/Number – SpanishReviewLesson prepared by:Regina Stone-Hernandez, M.S.

Gender/Number - Spanish•Most Spanish nouns end in either an

unstressed a or an unstressed o.

•La casa (the house – feminine)

•El niño (the boy – masculine)

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• Those ending in a are mostly feminine.

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• Those ending in o are mostly masculine.

Gender/Number - Spanish• La casa (the house)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish• El oso (the bear)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Masculine

Gender/Number - Spanish• La escuela (the school)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish• La iglesia (the church)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish• El niño (the boy)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Masculine

Gender/Number - Spanish• La bebita (the little baby

girl )

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish• La hermana (the sister)

Feminine or masculine?

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Correct!!!

Feminine

Gender/Number – SpanishRemember…

Spanish nouns that begin with a stressed a (whether or not the accent is written) and end in a are feminine…

but when they are singular, they take a masculine singular article.

Remember…

When modified by an adjective, the adjective must always be feminine, singular or plural, e.g., el agua fría and las aguas frías.

Gender/Number – SpanishExamples:

el hacha becomes las hachas

el águila becomes las águilas

el agua becomes las aguas.

Gender/Number - SpanishRemember…

Spanish nouns ending in –ción, -sión, -dad and -tud are all feminine.

Not all words ending in -ión, however are feminine (note above that it's the c or s before -ión that tells you a word is feminine).

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Examples:

Gorrión (sparrow)

avión (plane)

camión (truck)

Gender/Number - Spanish• The fastest and least

painful way to master the gender of nouns is when you first encounter them.

• If they happen to be on your vocabulary list, precede them, according to their gender, with el or la in front of them if they are singular…

• and los or las in front of them, if they are plural.

• When you study vocabulary, don’t simply repeat mesa, for instance. Say la mesa. You’ll then be reinforcing the gender of the word – almost painlessly.

Gender/Number - SpanishNow that we've covered the

way articles agree with the nouns they point to, we can demonstrate agreement where adjectives are concerned.

A noun is almost always used with an article before it and often with an adjective after it.

NOUN

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El caballo (the horse – singular - masculine)

Los caballos (the horses – plural - masculine)

NOUN

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La silla (the chair – singular – feminine)

Las sillas (the chairs – plural – feminine)

NOUN

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Unlike nouns, articles and adjectives can morph – they are like chameleons in that they take on the gender and number of the noun they are associated with.

Thus, we say:

la rosa blanca el caballo pardo

el hombre alto

la mujer alta

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Can you see how the articles in Spanish precede the noun and the descriptive adjectives (color adjectives being perfect examples) follow the noun?

Let's make the previous examples plural:

las rosas blancas

los caballos pardos.

Gender/Number - Spanish Finally, if there are two

descriptive adjectives modifying one noun:

The simplest and most common solution is to put them both after the noun with y (and) in between.

the two pretty, green birds

becomes…

los dos pájaros bonitos y verdes.

Gender/Number - Spanish Now, let’s put it into

practice…

Split into groups of two students

Translate the following nouns, add their proper articles (careful with the gender and the number)

Add a descriptive adjective

Gender/Number - Spanish Desk

Books

Door

Windows

Light

Blackboard

Telephone

Papers

Students

Teacher

Keys

Wallet

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