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Spanish nouns are either masculine or feminine.

Not all nouns end in –o or -a

Most masculine nouns end in –o el cursoel bolígrafo

Most feminine nouns end in –aLa escuelaLa hoja de papel

For those nouns, you have to memorize the el or la with it to decipher the gender.

To make a noun plural:

add an –s if it ends in a vowel

Add an –es if it ends in a consonant

This is the same way you make adjectives plural as well.

There are definite and indefinite articles that are often used before nouns

El, la, los and las are the definite articles They all mean “the” El goes with singular, masc. nouns Los goes with plural, masc. nouns La goes with sing., fem. nouns. Las goes with pl., fem. nouns.

Un, una, unos, and unas are indefinite articles. Un and Una mean “a/an” Unos and Unas mean “some/a few” Un goes with sing., masc. nouns. Unos goes with pl., masc. nouns. Una goes with sing., fem. nouns. Unas goes with pl., fem. nouns.

Agreement Remember articles and adjectives must ALWAYS agree with the noun they are describing. If a noun is sing.,

masc. the article/adjective must also be sing. masc.,etc.