La Concordancia (agreement). 2 main categories in Spanish Gender Number.

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La Concordancia(agreement)

2 main categories in Spanish

Gender

Number

GenderRefers to:

Masculino (masculine)

Feminino (feminine)

NumberRefers to:

Singular

Plural

Masculino

• 3 rules to follow to know if a word is categorized as MASCULINO

• You need to look at the word ending…

1. …ends in -O

• libro

•escritorio

•bolígrafo

2. …ends in -OR

•actor

•borrador

•profesor

3. refers to a male being

•Padre

•Hombre

•Señor

Feminino

• 4 rules to follow to know if a word is categorized as FEMININO

• You need to look at the word ending…

1. …ends in -A

•pluma

•mesa

• regla

2. …ends: -ción or -sión

• lección

• televisión

3. …ends: -dad or -tad

•unidad

•dificultad

4. refers to a female being

•mujer

•madre

•señora

Exceptions• El problema

•El mapa

•El día

•La tarde

•La noche

•La mano

• Those are just some examples.

• There are many other exceptions.

• The best way to know which are masculine & feminine:

MEMORIZE THEM!!

Los artículosThere are 2 types of artículos:

Definidos (definite)

Indefinidos (Indefinite)

• There are 4 artículos definidos and indefinidos

• The one used is determined by Number & Gender

Los artículos definidos

laslafeminino

loselmasculino

pluralsingular

el libroNOT

la libro o los libro

Significado

• All of the artículos definidos mean:

THE

Los artículos indefinidos

unasunafeminino

unosunmasculino

pluralsingular

una plumaNOT

un pluma o unas pluma

Significado

• The artículos indefinidos have a different significado depending on the number

Singular = A / An

Plural = some