#SPANISH ENDINGS MASCULINE AND FEMININE UPGRADE#
#SPANISH ENDINGS MASCULINE AND FEMININE FULL#

Study the above lists and then come back and collect this little gift for your efforts: practice time!ĭon’t scroll down too fast until you’ve finished and you’re ready to see the answers. Now you’ve read this far take some action. la modelo – model (for a female model, el modelo for a male model) Please note they are all noun endings.īefore we take a look at the rule breakers, it’s important to mention that some suffixes can refer specifically to peopleand therefore, although the ending doesn’t change, the article does:Īs the saying goes, they always come in threes, here are the nouns you just have to learn, the nouns ending in – ma and the nouns ending in - o that are not what they may seem, aka ‘the rule breakers’: As a general rule, words ending in -o are masculine, those ending in -a are feminine: un proyecto, a project una prueba, a proof. Gender according to the ending Endings in -o and -a. For now, we will concern ourselves only with the gender that each denotes. The gender of Spanish nouns is either masculine or feminine. Take a look at the examples above and you’ll be able to see what I’m saying. For example – ly in the word quick ly, or – tion in the word recep tion.Įach suffix listed here also has a specific meaning to add, modify or enhance the word it’s attached to.

#SPANISH ENDINGS MASCULINE AND FEMININE FULL#

Spanish is full of suffixes which, put simply, are the elements added at the end of the stem of a word to form another word.

Below you will find the rules for matching these adjectives to their respective nouns in gender and number.

Whether you’re fairly new to the language or you’ve been learning Spanish for a while, you may have noticed that there is more than the final letter of a words to crack the gender code. Most adjectives end in o, e, or a consonant in their singular masculine forms. Felicidad happiness is feminine, and so is ciudad ( city ). Silla, which means chair, is a masculine noun. The lists of endings that are always masculine, endings that are always feminine (I’m referring to more than one letter at the end of a word this time), and the rule breakers - because in languages there are always some! Even though it is hard to think about happiness, city, or pencil in terms of masculine or feminine, these words in Spanish do have a gender assigned.

#SPANISH ENDINGS MASCULINE AND FEMININE UPGRADE#

Those students ready to upgrade from the basic gender survival guide (as I sometimes refer to it), would be pleased to read today’s blog is packed with new tools. Spanish nouns that end with -o are masculine, and ones that end with -a are feminine, right Yes, usually.

Spanish endings masculine and feminine