SP I NOUNS AND ARTICLES

Make 2 columns in your notes - one masculine and one feminine.

Add the following rules to your columns as we go.

A NOUN IS:

• Person
• Place
• Thing
• Idea

All Spanish nouns have a gender and are also either singular or plural.

GENDER

• For the most part, nouns that refer to males are masculine and nouns that refer to females are feminine.
• el hombre
• la mujer

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• When a masculine noun ends in -o or -or, the feminine noun ends in -a or -ora.
• el chico / la chica
• el conductor / la conductora

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• Nouns ending in -o are almost always masculine. Nouns ending in -a are almost always feminine.

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• Nouns ending in -ma are almost always masculine, even though it ends in -a.
• el problema
• el programa

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• Nouns ending in -ción are almost always feminine.
• la lección
• la conversación

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• Nouns ending in -s are almost always masculine.
• el autobús
• el país

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• Nouns ending in -dad are almost always feminine.
• la nacionalidad
• la comunidad

EXCEPTIONS:

• Some words have the same word for masculine and feminine, so the gender is determined by the article.
• el joven / la joven
• el estudiante / la estudiante
• el turista / la turista

EXCEPTIONS:

• el mapa
• el día
• la mano