Transcript Gender/Number

Gender/Number – Spanish
Review
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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 Desk
 Telephone
 Books
 Papers
 Door
 Students
 Windows
 Teacher
 Light
 Keys
 Blackboard
 Wallet
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In conclusion…
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