nouns and definite articles * nouns refer to people, animals, places, and things
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Nouns and Definite
Articles
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*Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and things.
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*In Spanish, nouns have gender. They are either masculine or feminine.
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*Most nouns that end in -o are masculine.
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*Most nouns that end in -a are feminine.
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*For example: el libro la pizza *An exception: el día *nouns that end in –ma and –pa are usually masculine and ones that end in –dad, -ción, and sión are usually
feminine
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*Other Spanish nouns end in -e or a consonant.
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For example:
el ajedrez el marcador
la clase la televisión
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*Some can be both masculine and feminine: el/la estudiante
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*To make nouns plural you usually add -s to words ending in a vowel and -es to words ending in a consonant.
*estudiante estudiantes
*animal animales
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(Artículos definidos)
*El , La , Los and Las are called definite articles. *In English they mean “the”
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(Artículos definidos)
*We use El and Los with masculine nouns and La and Las with feminine nouns.
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Use definite articles to talk about a noun as a general category or when saying what you like with gustar.*¿Cómo es la pizza?*Es deliciosa. Me gusta la pizza.