Don’t get freaked out if you see les compañeres (the colleagues) instead of los compañeros. For noun-article agreement, the ending is also changed to -es. Progressives use the article les for mixed groups. This linguistic practice is being challenged by linguistic movements in the current gender-neutral times. The male gender historically took precedence. If you have 99 women and just one man, it has traditionally been ellos. Singular and plural masculine: un and unosĮxamples: un vaso (a glass), unos vasos (some glasses)įor centuries, a group of people or nouns of mixed gender has been referred to as male.Singular and plural feminine: una and unasĮxamples: una niña (a girl), unas niñas (some girls).Singular and plural masculine: el and losĮxamples: el temblor (the earthquake), los temblores (the earthquakes).Singular and plural feminine: la and las.Įxamples: la casa (the house), las casas (the houses). Unlike in English, the article will also be affected by whether the noun is plural. The gender of a noun will affect the article that goes with it. We can thank the Spanish language gods for this. Not even the Real Academia Española can answer these questions. Why? Perhaps it is a remnant from Latin, but not all linguistic details are clear. Lazo, paisaje, estambre, tambor, trampolín, tabú They may also end in an accented vowel like – á or – ú Masculine: ending in -o, -aje, -ambre, -or, -ín.Feminine: ending in -a,-ía, -ción, -sión, -dad, -tad, -zaĬama, cría, canción, pasión, maldad, amistad, taza.You can follow these basic rules to start identifying the gender of a noun: The moon ( luna), for example, is female. In most cases, female words will end with an ‘-a’ and male words will end with an ‘-o’. In Spanish, most words are either masculine or feminine. The simplest tip to guess the gender of a word is to look at its ending.
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