1. Nouns and Definite Articles

2. NOUNS (Sustantivos)
Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and things.

3. NOUNS (Sustantivos)
In Spanish, nouns have gender. They are either masculine or feminine.

4. Masculine / Feminine
Most nouns that end in -o are masculine.

5. Masculine / Feminine
Most nouns that end in -a are feminine.

6. Masculine / Feminine 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

7. Other Spanish Nouns
Other Spanish nouns end in -e or a consonant.

8. Other Spanish Nouns
For example: el ajedrez el marcador la clase la televisión

9. Other SpanishNouns
Some can be both masculine and feminine: el/la estudiante

10. Making Nouns Plural
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

11. Definite Articles (Artículos definidos)
El , La , Los and Las are called definite articles.
In English they mean “the”

12. Definite Articles (Artículos definidos)
We use El and Los with masculine nouns and La and Las with feminine nouns.

13. Indefinite Articles
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.