NOUNS & ARTICLES

SUSTANTIVOS Y
ARTÍCULOS
In Spanish all nouns belong to 2 gender
categories:

Masculine Feminine
(feminina)
(masculino) or ________________
_________________
-Masculine nouns USUALLY
O
end in -___
el helado

- Feminine nouns USUALLY

end in -___.
A
la fruta
 SINGULAR nouns name 1 of something.
• ____________
– the girl
– the student
– the apple

PLURAL
• _____________ nouns name more than 1 of
something.
– the girls
– the students
– the apples
 VOWEL (a,e,i,o,u)
If a noun ends in a _________
“S” to make it plural.
ADD _____
• chico  chicos

If a singular noun ends in a

CONSONANT “ES” to
_______________ (r,l,n..)  ADD _____
make it plural.
• trabajador  trabajadores
 Al practicar
chico  ________________
chicos

chica ________________
chicas
fruta  ________________
frutas
helado  ________________
helados
persona  ________________
personas
mu jer  ________________
mujeres
hombre ________________
hombres
 Definite Articles
“the” in
• When we want to say _______
Spanish, we use Definite Articles.
CHANGE
• Definite Articles ______________
according to the ___________
gender of
the noun and according to
singular or
whether the noun is __________
__________
plural
 Definite Articles: the
MASCULINE FEMININE

SINGULAR
EL LA

PLURAL
LOS LAS
 Al practicar
la galleta ________________
las galletas

el refresco  ________________
los refrescos
el estudiante ________________
los estudiantes
la estudiante ________________
las estudiantes
la pizza ________________
las pizzas
 Indefinite Articles
“a” “an”
• When we want to say ____, ____,
“some” in Spanish, we use
or________
Indefinite Articles.
• Indefinite Articles also
CHANGE according to the
______________
___________
gender of the noun and
according to whether the noun is
__________
plural or __________
singular
Indefinite Articles: a/some

MASCULINE FEMININE
SINGULAR
UN UNA

PLURAL
UNOS UNAS
 Al practicar
un amigo ________________
unos amigos

una amiga  ________________

unas amigas
un deporte  ________________
unos deportes
un sombrero  ________________
unos sombreros
una pizza ________________
unas pizzas
una fiesta  ________________
unas fiestas