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Gender/Number – Spanish
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Lesson prepared by:
Regina Stone-Hernandez, M.S.
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• 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.
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• La casa (the house)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Feminine
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• El oso (the bear)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Masculine
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• La escuela (the school)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Feminine
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• La iglesia (the church)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Feminine
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• El niño (the boy)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Masculine
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• La bebita (the little baby girl )
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Feminine
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• La hermana (the sister)
Feminine or masculine?
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Correct!!!
Feminine
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Remember…
Remember…
Spanish nouns that begin with
a stressed a (whether or not
the accent is written) and end
in a are feminine…
When modified by an
adjective, the adjective must
always be feminine, singular
or plural, e.g., el agua fría
and las aguas frías.
but when they are singular,
they take a masculine singular
article.
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Examples:
el hacha becomes las hachas
el águila becomes las águilas
el agua becomes las aguas.
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Remember…
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)
camión
(truck)
avión (plane)
are masculine:
sparrow,
plane and
truck.
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• 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.
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Now 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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NOUN
El caballo (the horse –
singular - masculine)
Los caballos (the horses
– plural - masculine)
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La silla (the chair –
singular – feminine)
Las sillas (the chairs –
plural – feminine)
NOUN
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Thus, we say:
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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Telephone
Books
Papers
Door
Students
Windows
Teacher
Light
Keys
Blackboard
Wallet
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