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Articles in Spanish. Reflect gender and number in nouns. Articles introduce the noun. The article will tell us a lot about the noun it is next to. In Spanish we use articles much more than we do in English because nouns in Spanish have gender.
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Articles in Spanish Reflect gender and number in nouns
Articles introduce the noun • The article will tell us a lot about the noun it is next to. • In Spanish we use articles much more than we do in English because nouns in Spanish have gender. • We learn the gender and the number of the noun by looking at the article.
The= el,la,los,las • The definite article “the” in English becomes four articles in Spanish because we must consider gender and number • El= singular masculine • La = singular feminine • Los = plural masculine • Las = plural feminine
A, an= un,una, unos, unas • The indefinite article “a” or “an” turns into these in Spanish • Un= singular, masculine • Una= singular, feminine • Unos= plural masculine • Unas= plural feminine
Accordance= agreement • The article and the noun must agree in number and in gender. • If the noun is feminine the article must be feminine • If the noun is masculine the article must be masculine • If the noun is plural (more than one) the article must be plural
singular Una amiga Un hermano El libro El día La calculadora plural unas amigas unos hermanos los libros los días las calculadoras How do we see accordance