gender/number – spanish review
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Gender/Number – Spanish Review. Lesson 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) . Gender/Number - Spanish. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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)
Gender/Number - Spanish
• 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?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Feminine
Gender/Number - Spanish• El oso (the bear)
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Masculine
Gender/Number - Spanish• La escuela (the school)
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Feminine
Gender/Number - Spanish• La iglesia (the church)
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Feminine
Gender/Number - Spanish• El niño (the boy)
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Masculine
Gender/Number - Spanish• La bebita (the little baby
girl )
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
Correct!!!
Feminine
Gender/Number - Spanish• La hermana (the sister)
Feminine or masculine?
Gender/Number - Spanish
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
Gender/Number - SpanishIn conclusion…
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