1. 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…
Spanish nouns that begin with a stressed a (whether or not the accent is written) and end in a are feminine…
but when they are singular, they take a masculine singular article.
Remember… When modified by an adjective, the adjective must always be feminine, singular or plural, e.g., el agua fría and las aguas frías.

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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)
avión (plane)
camión (truck)
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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El caballo (the horse – singular - masculine)
Los caballos (the horses – plural - masculine)
NOUN

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La silla (the chair – singular – feminine)
Las sillas (the chairs – plural – feminine)
NOUN

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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.
Thus, we say:
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
Books
Door
Windows
Light
Blackboard
Telephone
Papers
Students
Teacher
Keys
Wallet

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