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Title: Page 132 Realidades A


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Page 132Realidades A
  • Nouns

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NOUNS
  • Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and
    things.

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NOUNS
  • In Spanish, nouns have gender. They are either
    masculine or feminine.

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

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

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Masculine / Feminine
  • For example
  • el libro
  • la calculadora
  • An exception el día

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

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Other Spanish Nouns
  • For example
  • el cine el marcador
  • la clase la televisión

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Other Spanish Nouns
  • Some can be both masculine and feminine el/la
    estudiante

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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.
  • silla sillas
  • teclado teclados
  • cartel carteles

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Making Nouns Plural
  • Singular nouns that end in z change the z to c in
    the plural.
  • El lápiz los lápices

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Definite Articles
  • El , La , Los and Las are called definite
    articles.
  • In English they mean the

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Definite Articles
  • We use El and Los with masculine nouns and La and
    Las with feminine nouns.

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Indefinite Articles
  • Un, Una, Unos, and Unas are indefinite articles.

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Indefinite Articles
  • Un and Una mean
  • a or an in English.

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Indefinite Articles
  • Unos and Unas mean some in English.

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Indefinite Articles
  • Un and Unos are masculine and Una and Unas are
    feminine.

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Its a good idea to learn a noun with
its definite article, el or la, because that
will usually tell you the gender.
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