Spanish Gender Nouns
Masculine Nouns:- Masculine Nouns are Gender nouns referring to Male example are Men and Boys. See Examples Below. |
| Some words for people have only one possible gender, whether they refer to a male or female. |
To make a word masculine or feminine especially in English, try changing the ending, for example, Englishman and Englishwoman or prince and princess. Similarly, In Spanish, very often the by changing the ending of a noun to refer a man or woman, words are formed.
| Imp Note: Note that a noun ending in -O is generally masculine, and a noun ending in -a are feminine |
| 1 | Nouns in Spanish are called los sustantivos. |
| 2 | In Spanish all nouns have a gender. |
| 3 | They can either be masculine or feminine. |
| 4 | There are some rules which help you recognise the gender. However, there are exceptions also. |
| 1 | el mayo | The May |
| 2 | el martes | On Tuesday |
| 3 | el Océano Pacifico | The Pacific Ocean |
| 4 | el Balearic Sea | The Belearic Sea |
| 5 | el uno | The One |
| 6 | el Tagus | The Tagus |
With the Below explanation you can now recognize the genders of Spanish nouns more accurately and can learn and memorize them more easily. In Spanish, a noun’s gender and number play an important role that will help you to frame a grammatically correct sentence.
| Feminine ending | Examples | |
| -a | la casa the house la cara the face | BUT el dia the day el mapa the map el planeta the planet el tranvia the tram and other words with -ma in the end(el problema the problem, el programa the programme, el sistema the system, el clima the climate) |
| -cion | la leccion the lesson | |
| -sion | la estacion the station la expresion the expression | |
| -dad | la ciudad the city | |
| -tad | la libertad freedom | |
| -tud | la multitud the crowd | |
Some words have different meanings depending on whether they are masculine or feminine as given in examples below.
| Invirtieron mucho capital. | They invested lot of capital. |
| Viven en la capital. | They live in the Capital. |
Definite and Indefinite Articles, difference in Definite and Indefinite Articles.
