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This one is simple. Every living creature is either an el or a la. If you are an English speaker you have always referred to creatures with the.
The Spanish language is a lot more detailed in this respect. It loves to observe and categorize the differences. With this in mind, take note of the first two rules for mastering Spanish gender:. This is false. Only distinct living creatures fall under this categorization. The following examples clearly illustrate how objects commonly associated with each gender do not follow the rule.
To keep you from falling into this trap, a very important step you can take is to experience and interact with these nouns in real-world situations. How can you do that from home? An o ending can indicate that a person or animal is male or that an object, idea, etc. A lot of nouns that end in -ma , -pa , and -ta are masculine because they are Greek in origin.
Most feminine nouns end in a. Ending in an a indicates that a person or animal is female or that an object, idea, etc. Spanish adjectives must match the nouns they describe in both gender and number. For example, apples manzanas are feminine in Spanish, so this word must be used with feminine articles like la , las , and una. Sure, sometimes correctly applying gender rules correctly can be a breeze, but there are times when the correct usage is more complex, unintuitive and a challenge to learn.
Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy. You may already know that every noun in Spanish is either masculine or feminine. This gender is demonstrated by using the Spanish articles el masculine or la feminine. Most nouns that end in — o are masculine and most that end in — a are feminine.
You may lose a bit of your Spanish-speaking ego when you realize that knowing this is barely scraping the surface of the concept. But first, be sure to take a minute to search your brain for what you already know. To get a better sense of these concepts and much more, look for examples of them on FluentU. FluentU takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. Other sites use scripted content.
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In the introduction, I mentioned that most nouns that end in -o are masculine and most nouns that end in -a are feminine.
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