1. El and La – What are they?

2. Introduction
Remember that in greetings, males say “encantado” and girls say “encantada” to mean delighted?
Words ending with “o” are masculine and words ending with “a” are feminine.
Lets expand this!

3. El and La
“el” and “la” are Spanish articles that are placed before some nouns and words.
El is the masculine article.
La is the feminine article.
Words ending with “a” will always have the feminine article “la” in front of the word.
Words ending with any other letter will almost always have the masculine article “el” in front of the word. However, there are some rule breakers!

4. Application
Now let us see how this plays out in our next lesson in learning about how to say the different parts of the body ion Spanish.

5. The Body

6. La cabeza
Head

7. La nariz
Nose

8. El brazo
Arm

9. (Los dedos = fingers/toes)
El dedo
Finger
(Los dedos = fingers/toes)

10. La mano
Hand

11. El estómago
Stomach

12. Whoa! That’s a Cognate!
Cognates are words in Spanish that look like and sound like the English word.
El estómago = Stomach

13. El pie
Foot

14. La pierna
Leg

15. La boca
Mouth

16. El ojo
Eye