Gender of Spanish Words Spanish I Señora Hoffman-Fields

What is the gender of a word? Spanish, like most other languages, has a way of sorting nouns, adjectives, and articles into 2 categories. These 2 categories are masculine and feminine. It is important to know the gender of a word because of agreement.

What is agreement? Masculine adjectives and masculine articles describe masculine nouns. Feminine adjectives and feminine articles describe feminine nouns. If you use the incorrect category of a word, it is confusing and not very….intelligente.

So, how do you know which gender a word is? Masculine words Most words that end with the letter O are masculine. Words that refer to males are masculine. Feminine words Most words that end with the letter A are feminine. Words that refer to females are feminine.

But what about all the other words that don’t end with O or A? memorize which gender they are learn the article (the, a) with the noun look them up in a dictionary or online resource

The article “the” el goes with masculine words (singular) la goes with feminine words (singular) los goes with masculine words (plural) las goes with feminine words (plural)

Práctica de Gramática: The boy is tall. El chico es alto. The girl is tall. La chica es alta. The boys are tall. Los chicos son altos. The girls are tall. Las chicas son altas.

Práctica de Gramática The male friend is nice.. El amigo es simpático. The female friend is nice. La amiga es simpática. The male friends are nice. Los amigos son simpáticos. The female friends are nice. Las amigas son simpáticas.