Now that we`ve covered how articles align with the nouns they refer to, we can demonstrate our agreement when it comes to adjectives. A noun is almost always used with an article before and often with an adjective after. Remember: the noun is the center of this relationship and articles and adjectives should match the noun in gender and number. Unlike nouns, articles and adjectives can change – they are like chameleons because they take the gender and number of the name they are associated with. So we say: la rosa blanca et el caballo pardo ou el hombre alto et la mujer alta. Do you see how spanish articles precede the noun and descriptive adjectives (farbadjectives are perfect examples) follow the noun? Let`s pluralize the previous examples, that is, if Rosa becomes Rosas and Caballo becomes Caballos, then we must make the articles and adjectives consistent with the noun. Remember, the name determines the gender of the modifiers; so we have: las rosas blancas et los caballos pardos. However, it`s not a perfect science, so you can read this blog post about tips for whether a word is masculine and feminine and contains groups of words that follow a gender (letters are feminine, also time, numbers are masculine), and also a list of words that end in -a but are masculine. The same rule applies to certain articles (the equivalent of “the”) and indefinite articles (a class of words that contain “a”, “an” and “any” in English), which are sometimes considered types of adjectiveswww.thoughtco.com/noun-adjective-agreement-3078114. Indirect pronouns: me, te, le, nos, bones, les.
The /them change to “se” when they are in front of “lo/la/los/las”, but this has nothing to do with an agreement. Adjectives ending in e or -ista do not change by gender. They coincide with the masculine and feminine nouns in the singular, although they change for the number. Spanish adjectives are usually listed in their singular masculine form in dictionaries, so it`s important to know how to match these masculine singular adjectives with the noun they describe. Most adjectives end with o, e or a consonant in their singular masculine forms. Below are the rules for matching these adjectives with their respective nouns in gender and number. Un taco es una preparación mexicana que en su forma estándar consiste en una tortilla que contiene algún alimento dentro. (A taco is a Mexican preparation that, in its standard form, consists of a tortilla that contains food. Su is a possessive determinant or dojective that changes with number but not sex. Estándar is an immutable adjective – the same word would have been used with plural or masculine nouns.) Most adjectives ending in a consonant do not change according to gender, but change for the number, just like adjectives that end in -e. Noun-adjective correspondence is one of the most fundamental aspects of Spanish grammar: adjectives must correspond to the nouns to which they refer both in number and gender. Adjectives can precede or after nouns, or they can be used with verbs such as ser (“to be”) to describe nouns.
But (with the exception of immutable adjectives), they will always correspond to the nouns they describe both in number and gender. That is, if I say, for example, that a car is yellow, the word “yellow” must have the same gender and number as “car”. In Spanish, adjectives must correspond to the noun (or pronoun) they describe in gender and number. This means that if the noun describing an adjective is feminine, the adjective must be feminine, and if the same noun is also plural, the adjective will also be feminine AND plural. “Lo” is neutral, general, does not refer to a word, so no correspondence, and is usually translated as “the thing”. I hope it helped! Big deal of this “deal” affair! Just remember that articles (the/a) and adjectives (descriptive words) have the same gender and number as the noun they refer to. In Spanish, we have a rule called “consent,” which usually consists of words around the name to “match” the name in gender and number. The remaining verbs that you learn with your grids intermittently, and the pronouns gradually become more familiar, and that`s sorted consistency. Verbs do not correspond to gender, but they correspond to the subject in number, and of course they follow a tense. Now look at these other examples with larger numbers: spanish nouns ending in -ción, -sión, -dad, and -tud are all feminine. Most of them have English counterparts in words ending in -tion, -ty and -tude, almost all of which are equally related to English (i.e.
they have the same meaning). However, not all words ending in -ión are feminine (note above that it is the c or s before -ión that tells you that a word is feminine). Three common words, gorrión, avión and camión are male: sparrow, plane and truck. You probably won`t have to talk about sparrows, but planes and trucks are pretty common in everyday life! If they end in -or or or -on, we add an -a for the feminine and an -s for the plural. Example: trabajador/a (diligent) / cabezón/cabezona (stubborn). Tonic pronouns: mí, ti, él/ella/sí, nosotros, vosotros, ellos/sí. Las familias felices se divierten en la playa rocosa. (Happy families have fun on the rocky beach.) Felices is plural because familias is plural. The feminine form Rocosa is used because Playa is feminine.
The and las are articles specific to the feminine. .