Spanish NOUNS ARTICLES SUSTANTIVOS Y ARTCULOS NOUNS Nouns

Spanish NOUNS & ARTICLES SUSTANTIVOS Y ARTÍCULOS

NOUNS • Nouns refer to people, animals, places, abstractions and things.

In Spanish, EVERY noun has a gender. They belong to 2 gender categories: Feminine Masculine (feminina) (masculino) or _________________

-Masculine nouns USUALLY end in O ___ __ el helado - Feminine nouns USUALLY end in A ___. la fruta

Other Spanish Nouns • Other Spanish nouns end in -e or a consonant. For example: el cine el marcador la clase la televisión - Some can be both masculine and feminine: - (el/la) estudiante

Masculine / Feminine Exceptions: –el día –el idioma –el poema –el clima -el problema -el drama -el mapa

SINGULAR nouns name 1 of “something. ” • ______ – the girl – the student – the apple -la muchacha -el estudiante -la manzana PLURAL • _______ nouns name more than 1 of “something. ” – the girls – the students – the apples -las muchahas -los estudiantes -las manzanas

Making Nouns Plural VOWEL If a noun ends in a _____ (a, e, i, o, u) ADD _____ to “-s” it plural. make • chicos • sillas CONSONANT If a singular noun ends in a ________ (b, l, t…) ADD _____ to make it plural. “-es” • trabajadores • carteles

Making Nouns Plural • Singular nouns that end in z change the z to c in the plural. • El lápiz los lápices

A practicar chicos chico ________ chicas chica ________ días día ________________ helados persona ________ mujeres mu jer ________ hombres hombre ________

Definite Articles “the” • When we want to say _______ in Spanish, we use Definite Articles. CHANGE • Definite Articles _______ according to the ______ of thegender noun and according to whether the noun is singular plural _____ or _____

Definite Articles: “the” Gender and Number SINGULAR PLURAL MASCULINE El Los La Las FEMININE

A practicar las galletas la galleta ________ los refrescos el refresco ________ los estudiantes el estudiante ________________ las estudiantes las pizzas la pizza ________

Indefinite Articles • When we want to say ____, “a” ____, “an” or____ in “some” Spanish, we use Indefinite Articles. • Indefinite Articles also _______ according to the ______ of the noun and CHANGE according to whether the noun is _____ orgender _____. singular plural

Indefinite Articles: “a/some” Gender and Number MASCULINE FEMININE SINGULAR PLURAL Un Unos Unas

Al practicar unos amigos un amigo ________ unas amigas una amiga ________ unos deportes un deporte ________ unos mapas un mapa ________ unas pizzas una pizza ________ unas fiestas una fiesta ________

HELPFUL HINT It’s a good idea to learn a noun with its definite article, el or la, because that will always tell you the gender and number.