This document discusses nouns in Spanish. It notes that nouns refer to people, places, animals and things. It explains that Spanish nouns have gender, either masculine or feminine, and that nouns ending in -o are typically masculine and those ending in -a are typically feminine. It provides examples of masculine and feminine nouns. It also discusses making nouns plural, definite articles and indefinite articles in Spanish.

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Realidades 1
Nouns

2. NOUNS
 Nouns refer to people,
animals, places, and
things.

3. NOUNS
 In Spanish, nouns have
gender. They are either
masculine or feminine.

4. Masculine / Feminine
 Most nouns that end in
-o are masculine.

5. Masculine / Feminine
 Most nouns that end in -a
are feminine.

6. Masculine / Feminine
 For example:
el libro
la calculadora
 An exception: el día

7. Other Spanish Nouns
 Other Spanish nouns end
in -e or a consonant.

8. Other Spanish Nouns
 For example:
el cine el marcador
la clase la televisión

9. Other Spanish Nouns
 Some can be both
masculine and feminine:
el/la estudiante

10. Making Nouns Plural
 To make nouns plural you usually add
-s to words ending in a vowel and -es to
words ending in a consonant.
 silla sillas
 teclado teclados
 cartel carteles

11. Making Nouns Plural
 Singular nouns that end in z change the
z to c in the plural.
 El lápiz los lápices

12. Definite Articles
 El , La , Los and Las are
called definite articles.
 In English they mean
“the”

13. Definite Articles
 We use El and Los with
masculine nouns and La
and Las with feminine
nouns.

14. Indefinite Articles
 Un, Una, Unos, and Unas
are indefinite articles.

15. Indefinite Articles
 Un and Una mean
“a or an” in English.

16. Indefinite Articles
 Unos and Unas mean
“some” in English.

17. Indefinite Articles
 Un and Unos are
masculine and Una and
Unas are feminine.

18. It’s a good idea to
learn a noun with its
definite article, el or
la, because that will
usually tell you the
gender.