Grammar Nouns Flashcards
What is a noun?
Nouns anwer the question ¿Quién es? and ¿Qué es? They are the labels we attach to everything in the world around us or in our own minds: people, animals, things, events, processes, ideas.
What is a noun phrase?
The noun phrase often consists of more than just a noun – it is extended so as to provide more information from: determiners, adjectives and adjectival phrases, relative clauses, and prepositional phrases. To avoid repetition, noun phrases are often represented by pronouns.
What is a proper noun?
A proper noun is the name of a particular individual person, animal, place or thing. Proper nouns in Spanish always begin with a capital letter except for: names of days, months, and seasons; and titles.
Mi hija Julia estudia física en la Universidad de Salamanca.
All other nouns are common nouns.
Mi hija estudia física en la universidad.
What are the genders in Spanish?
Masculine
Feminine
What gender are human beings and animals?
masculine or feminine El hombre El hijo El panadero El toro El león La mujer La hija La panadera La vaca La Leona
What gender are fruit trees?
masculine El cerezo (cherry tree)
What gender are rivers, oceans, seas, lakes, and mountains?
masculine
El Atlántico
El Amazonas
What gender are numbers, months and dats?
masculine
Un setenta y cinco por ciento
What gender are the infinitives of verbs?
masculine
El fumar es malo para la salud.
What gender is the fruit of the tree?
feminine La cereza (cherry)
What gender are the letters of the alphabet?
feminine
Una g
What gender are islands?
feminine
(as “isla” is understood)
Las Canarias
what gender are medical terms ending on -osis or -itis?
feminine
La diagnosis
what gender are most countries?
masculine
El Canadá
El México
What genders are countries if they’re not stressed?
feminine
La España
La Argentina
What gender are words that end in -ma
masculine
El clima
El tema
what gender are words that end in -ión?
feminine
La revolución
what gender are words that end in -dad, -tad, -tud
feminine
La bondad
what gender are words that end in -umbre?
feminine
la cumbre
what gender are words that end in -ie?
feminine
la superficie
what gender are words that end in -is?
feminine
la crisis
In changing to the feminine, some nouns that refer to people or some animals change their article but not their form.
list some
El / la agente El / la artista El / la atleta El / la cantante El / la dentista El / la joven El / la mártie El / la tigre
Sometimes the feminine form of a noun is not predictable from the masculine.
list some
El actor la actirz
El emperador la emperatriz
El principe la princesa
El rey la reína
What is the general rule for making plurals out of unstressed vowels
add -s
El cine > los cines
La empresa > las impresas