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Basic Spanish Grammar - Spanish language - Quick Spanish Grammar reference
Spanish nouns
In Spanish language nouns are masculine or feminine, either for person, thing, place, quality or idea.
Usually nouns are accompanied by an article or a limiting adjective (demonstrative, possesiv, indefinite article...)
Normally it is possible to know the gender of a word depending od the word's ending.
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- o |
- a |
The mayority of the nouns ending in -o are masculine: libr, curs, camarer, perr |
The mayority of the nouns ending in -a are feminine: mes, lengu, camarer, gat |
| There are some exceptions: for example. La moto is not a real exception because the complete word is motocicleta. |
There are some exceptions: for example. |
- ma |
- ión |
Some nouns ending in -ma (similar in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese... because all they have the same rooth -from Greek language) are masculine: el problema, el tema, el sistema, el programa, el clima, el idioma, |
Nouns ending in -ción, -sión, are feminine: la emoción, la tensión, la canción, la entonación, la habitación... |
In Spanish language nouns can change into singular or plural. |
If the noun ends in a vowel, add : libro - libros, mesa - mesas, niño - niños |
| If the noun ends in a consonant, add : profesor - profesores, español - españoles |
| If the noun ends in , it changes into when add -es : lápiz - lápices, andaluz - andaluces |
| If the noun ends in or, when add -es, it looses the accent: inglés - ingleses, canción - canciones |
| If the noun ends in and has more than one syllable, it does not change: el lunes - los lunes, la crisis - las crisis |
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