Singular Nouns: Gender and Articles Identifying People, Places, Things, and Ideas Singular Nouns: Gender and Articles Masculine NounsFeminine Nouns Definiteel hombrethe manla mujerthe woman Articlesel librothe bookla mesathe table Indefiniteun hombrea (one) manuna mujera (one) woman Articlesun libroa (one) bookuna mesaa (one) table 1
Nouns and Articles: Plural Forms Identifying People, Places, Things, and Ideas Nouns and Articles: Plural Forms SingularPlural el librolos librosthe books Nouns Ending la mesalas mesasthe tables in a Vowel un librounos librossome books una mesaunas mesassome tables Nouns Endingla universidadlas universidadesthe universities in a Consonantun papelunos papelessome papers 2
nosotros/nosotras we vosotros/vosotras you (fam. Sp.) ustedes (Uds.)you (form.) ellos/ellasthey Subject Pronouns Expressing Actions Subject Pronouns yoI túyou (fam.) usted (Ud.)you (form.) élhe ellashe SingularPlural 3
Present Tense of -ar Verbs Expressing Actions Present Tense of -ar Verbs hablar (to speak) : habl- SingularPlural (yo)habloI speak(nosotros)hablamoswe speak (nosotras) (tú)hablasyou speak(vosotros)habláis you speak (vosotras) (Ud.)you speak(Uds.) (él)habla he/she speaks (ellos) hablan you/they speak (ella)(ellas) 3
Negation Expressing Actions Negation In Spanish the word no is placed before the conjugated verb to make a negative sentence. Its English equivalent is not. El estudiante no habla español. The student does not speak Spanish. No, no necesito dinero. No, I don’t need money. 3