©2010 Teacher’s Discovery Gender of Nouns: Definite and Indefinite Articles Is it masculine or feminine?

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery All Spanish nouns have gender. This means that they are assigned the gender of either masculine or feminine depending upon the ending and the meanings of the nouns. There are rules that govern whether a noun is masculine or feminine.

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery o Most nouns that end in “ o ” or refer to males are masculine.

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery a Most nouns that end in “a” or refer to females are feminine.

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery They don’t follow the rules and have to be memorized!!!

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery These must be memorized too!

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A definite article refers to a specific thing, like “the” book. elloslalas

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery 4 These work the same as the 4 “THEs” in Spanish. They refer to a non-specific noun, a book or some books. un unos unas una

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery Ejemplos: El profesor El profesor = The teacher Los libros Los libros = The books La manzana La manzana = The apple Las oraciones Las oraciones = The sentences Un pato Un pato = A duck Una montaña Una montaña = A mountain Unos monos Unos monos = Some monkeys Unas fresas Unas fresas = Some strawberries

©2010 Teacher’s Discovery ellaloslaselloslalas libro madre gatos papas padre días luz sillas ununaunosunasununosunaunas

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