Page 110Realidades 1

Plurals of Nouns & Articles

NOUNS Nouns refer to people, animals, places, and

things In Spanish, nouns have gender. They are

either masculine or feminine Most nouns that end in -o are masculine. Most nouns that end in -a are feminine.

Making Nouns Plural To make nouns plural you usually add -s to

words ending in a vowel and -es to words ending in a consonant.

mochila mochilas bolĺgrafo bolĺgrafos cartel carteles

Singular nouns that end in z change the z to c in the plural.

El lápiz los lápices

Definite Articles El , La , Los and Las are called definite

articles. In English they mean “the” We use El and Los with masculine nouns We use La and Las with feminine nouns.

Indefinite Articles Un, Una, Unos, and Unas are indefinite

articles Un and Una mean “a or an” in English Unos and Unas mean “some” in English. Un and Unos are masculine

El libro un libro Los libros unos libros

Una and Unas are feminine. La bandera una bandera La ventana unas ventanas

Tarea Textbook Activity 15 from page

110 Make sure to copy singular form,

followed by an arrow, then the answer