Nouns and Definite

Articles

*Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and things.

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

*Most nouns that end in -o are masculine.

*Most nouns that end in -a are feminine.

*For example: el libro la pizza *An exception: el día *nouns that end in –ma and –pa are usually masculine and ones that end in –dad, -ción, and sión are usually

feminine

*Other Spanish nouns end in -e or a consonant.

For example:

el ajedrez el marcador

la clase la televisión

*Some can be both masculine and feminine: el/la estudiante

*To make nouns plural you usually add -s to words ending in a vowel and -es to words ending in a consonant.

*estudiante estudiantes

*animal animales

(Artículos definidos)

*El , La , Los and Las are called definite articles. *In English they mean “the”

(Artículos definidos)

*We use El and Los with masculine nouns and La and Las with feminine nouns.

Use definite articles to talk about a noun as a general category or when saying what you like with gustar.*¿Cómo es la pizza?*Es deliciosa. Me gusta la pizza.