Articles (definite vs indefinite)

Question 1

Use definite article when referring to an abstract concept

Question 2

Use definite article when talking about a skill, discipline, or subject

Question 3

Do not se definite article when talking about a skill, discipline, or subject when it is preceded by enseñar, estudiar, en, or de.

Question 4

Use definite article when talking about a skill, discipline, or subject with the words “interesarse en”

Question 5

Don’t use definite article if there is an allusion to the amount of people the sentence refers to. Never use it with “haber or hay”

Question 6

Use definite article with dates, seasons, meals, centuries, and hours

Question 7

The definite article is optional after de and en and omitted when you use “from _____ (time) to _____ (time).”

Question 8

Don’t use definite article for a day of the week after a “ser.”

Question 9

Use definite article for shit like “back in 99,” but don’t for “in 1999.”

Question 10

Use definite article before a title (except for don, doña, san(to), santa, fray, sor.

Question 11

The definite article extends to body parts and the acts they carry out

Question 12

The Spanish “had the ______ (body extension + adjective)”

Question 13

Percentages and rates are usually expressed after an indefinite article

Question 14

Usually used with geographical names (countries, cities, states)

Answer 14

Usually this is omitted unless it’s part of the name (LOS estados unidos, EL salvador, LA habana). And when there is an adjective after the noun, use it.