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• 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.