SPANC1 Flashcards
Spanish nouns can be ___ or ___
masculine or feminine
nouns referring to living things?
Mas(el) Fem.(la)
-o -a
-or -ora
-ista -ista
nouns referring to non-living things?
Mas.(el) Fem.(la)
-o -a
-ma -cion
-s -dad
how do you make the noun plural?
what happens when the nouns end with a z?
add -s to nouns that end in a vowel
add -es to nouns that end in a consonant
nouns that end in z change from z to c, then add -es
when a singular noun has an accent mark on the last syllable, the accent is ___ from the plural form.
dropped
use the ___ plural form to refer to a group of males and females
masculine
spanish articles vary in form bc they agree in _ and _ with the nouns they modify
gender number
THE in spanish?
M F
el la
los las
A in spanish?
M F
un una
unos unas
0 - 30 in spanish?
Number Spanish number spelling Spanish number pronunciation
1 Uno oo-no
2 Dos dohs
3 Tres trehs
4 Cuatro koo-ah-troh
5 Cinco seen-coh
6 Seis say-s
7 Siete see-eh-teh
8 Ocho oh-choh
9 Nueve noo-eh-veh
10 Diez dee-ehs
11 Once on-say
12 Doce doh-say
13 Trece trey-say
14 Catorce ka-tohr-say
15 Quince keen-say
16 Dieciséis dee-eh-see-say-s
17 Diecisiete dee-eh-see-eh-teh
18 Dieciocho dee-eh-see-oh-choh
19 Diecinueve dee-eh-see-noo-eh-veh
20 Veinte bey-n-teh
21 Veintiuno bey-n-tee-oo-no
22 Veintidós bey-n-tee-dohs
23 Veintitrés bey-n-tee-trehs
24 Veinticuatro bey-n-tee-koo-ah-troh
25 Veinticinco bey-n-tee-seen-coh
26 Veintiséis bey-n-tee-say-s
27 Veintisiete bey-n-tee-see-eh-teh
28 Veintiocho bey-n-tee-oh-choh
29 Veintinueve bey-n-tee-noo-eh-veh
30 Treinta trey-n-tah
31 Treinta y uno trey-n-tah-ee-oo-no
32 Treinta y dos trey-n-tah-ee-dohs
spanish equivalent fo how many people or things?
cuántos
cuántas
spanish equivalent for there is and there are? what to questions is/are there?
Hay, use question marks before and end to hay
ser?
-to be; used to identify yourself and others, expresses
possession with the preposition de =[noun] + de [owner]; to talk where you and others are from, origin; profession or occupation, irregular verb;
* Spanish doesn’t use the indefinite articles (un,una) after ser when referring to the profession, and accompanied by an adjective or other description
soy somos
eres sois
es son
unlike English, Spanish does not use the indefinite article (un, una) after ser when referring to professions, unless accompanied by an ___ or other __.
adjective, description
ex: marta es professora
what time is it?
?qué hora es?
when telling time, use es + __ with una and ___ + las with all other hours
la; son
to express 15 mins or quarter past the hour?
to express 30 mins or half past the hour?
y cuatro or y quince
y media or y trienta
express time from the half hour to the hour in Spanish by ______minutes or a portion of an hour to the next hour
subtracting
es la menos cuarto is the one less quarter (12:45)
son las tres menos quince are the three minus fifteen (2:45)
son las ocho menos viente are eight minus twenty (7:40)
son las tres menos diez are the three minus ten (9:50)
ask at what time a particular event takes place, what pharse?
A qué hora … es la fiesta?
to state at what time something takes place. what phrase?
a + la(s) + time
what is time + on the dot /sharp?
en punto
midnight?
la medianoche
time+ in the morning?
de la man’ana
time +at night?
de la noche
