Gender and Number of Nouns. Gender of nouns Masculine nouns use the articles el and un. Feminine nouns use the articles la and una.

Presentación del tema: "Gender and Number of Nouns. Gender of nouns Masculine nouns use the articles el and un. Feminine nouns use the articles la and una."— Transcripción de la presentación:

1 Gender and Number of Nouns

2 Gender of nouns Masculine nouns use the articles el and un. Feminine nouns use the articles la and una.

3 Gender of nouns Clues to use to help identify the gender of most nouns. 1.Meaning: biological sex=grammatical gender Nouns referring to male beings=masculine Nouns referring to female beings=feminine - el padre the father-la madre the mother - el toro the bull-la vaca the cow

4 Gender of nouns When the noun could be of either sex, the word might have a different form for masculine and feminine. el artista/ la artista the artist el estudiante/ la estudiante the student el empollón/ la empollona the nerd el profesor/ la profesora the teacher

5 Gender of nouns Some nouns are exceptions and can refer to either men or women, but their grammatical gender is fixed. el individuo the individual la persona the person el ángel the angel la víctima the victim

6 Gender of nouns Feminine nouns beginning with a stressed a sound use the articles el/un in the singular and las/unas in the plural el agua frescacool water las aguas frescascool waters un arma automática---an automatic weapon unas armas automáticassome automatic weapons

7 Gender of nouns el hada madrinafairy godmother las hadas madrinasfairy godmothers

8 Gender of nouns 2.Word ending Most nouns that end in -l, -o, -n, -e, -r, -s are masculine. el papelthe paperel café the coffee el librothe bookel amor the love el examen the examel lunesMonday

9 Gender of nouns Some common exceptions are la manothe hand la imagenthe image la gentethe people la partethe part

10 Gender of nouns Most nouns that end in -a, -d, -ie, ión, is, umbre, or –z are feminine. la comidafoodla crisiscrisis la actitudattitudela costumbrecustom la serieseriesla nariznose la televisióntelevision

11 Some common exceptions are: el díaday el aviónplane el sofásofa el camióntruck

12 Another group of exceptions end in the letters: -ma, -pa, -ta. el dramaplay el sistema system el mapamapel problema problem el planetaplanetel tema theme el poemapoem el poetapoet

13 Algunos ejemplos mujer pared mes municipalidad novelista pintora detalle

14 Más ejemplos bici tesis nación foto grupo moto