NOUNS &

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

Masculine Feminine
(masculino)
_________________ (feminina)
or ________________
-Masculine nouns USUALLY end in
-___
__ O
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
If a noun ends in a _________ (a,e,i,o,u) ADD
_____ to“S”
make it plural.
• chico  chicos

If a singular noun ends in a _______________

CONSONANT
(r,l,n..)  ADD _____ to make it plural.“ES”
• trabajador  trabajadores
 Al practicar
chicos
chico  ________________
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 ___________
genderof the
noun and according to whether the noun
singular
is __________ or __________
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
• When we want to say ____,“a” “an”
____,
“some” in Spanish, we use Indefinite
or________
Articles.
• Indefinite Articles also ______________
CHANGE
according to the ___________ of the noun
andgender
according to whether the noun is
__________ or __________
plural 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