Gender/Number – Spanish Review Lesson prepared by: Regina Stone-Hernandez, M.S.

Gender/Number - Spanish Most Spanish nouns end in either an unstressed a or an unstressed o. La casa (the house – feminine) El niño (the boy – masculine)

Gender/Number - Spanish Those ending in a are mostly feminine.

Gender/Number - Spanish Those ending in o are mostly masculine.

Gender/Number - Spanish La casa (the house) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish El oso (the bear) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Masculine

Gender/Number - Spanish La escuela (the school) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish La iglesia (the church) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish El niño (the boy) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Masculine

Gender/Number - Spanish La bebita (the little baby girl ) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Feminine

Gender/Number - Spanish La hermana (the sister) Feminine or masculine?

Gender/Number - Spanish Correct!!! Feminine

Gender/Number – Spanish 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.

Gender/Number – Spanish Examples: el hacha becomes las hachas el águila becomes las águilas el agua becomes las aguas.

Gender/Number - Spanish 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).

Gender/Number – Spanish Examples: Gorrión (sparrow) avión (plane) camión (truck) are masculine: sparrow, plane and truck.

Gender/Number - Spanish 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.

Gender/Number - Spanish 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

Gender/Number - Spanish El caballo (the horse – singular - masculine) Los caballos (the horses – plural - masculine) NOUN

Gender/Number - Spanish La silla (the chair – singular – feminine) Las sillas (the chairs – plural – feminine) NOUN

Gender/Number - Spanish 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

Gender/Number - Spanish 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.

Gender/Number - Spanish 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.

Gender/Number - Spanish 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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