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Wintermute 19:11, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC) draft: -

Grammar. Gender of nouns in Spanish.

In Spanish all the nouns are masculine or feminine.

For nouns that express entities with gender (people, animals..) there is both a feminine form and a masculine form (example: profesor (m), profesora (f))

The nouns that express entities without gender (objects, abstract concepts) have only one form. This form can be masculine or feminine.

Normally, the feminine words finalize with the letter 'a' and the masculine words end with the letter 'o'.

Examples:

Masculine words: caballo        horse perro          dog libro          book amor           love

Femenine words: paloma         dove hierba         grass casa           house libertad       freedom

- Grammar. The definite article:

As you know, in Spanish, the nouns can be feminine or masculine.

In English the definite article is always “the”.

In Spanish, the definite article is different - depending on the noun being feminine, masculine, singular or plural.

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Grammar. The indefinite article:

In English de indefinite articles are "a" and "an" (singular) or "some" (plural).

In Spanish there are different forms for feminine, masculine, singular or plural.

Hi Wintermute, this looks really nice! Great work! I have restructured Lesson 2 a little bit so that you can put your grammar section right in the beginning (the gender of nouns should definitely go before doing 'matching adjectives' - my fault, I didn't think of that before...) Thomas P.S. your English is very good, I just made some minor changes.

Pronombres personales. (Personal pronouns.)

Ejercicio 1. Rellena los espacios en blanco con los pronombres personales correctos en Español. Exercise 1. Fill the blank spaces with the correct Spanish personal pronous.

Ejercicio 2. Rellena los espacios en blanco con los pronombres personales correctos en español. Exercise 2. Fill the blank spaces with the correct Spanish personal pronouns.

This looks great. I have put in a link to Spanish Exercises Personal Pronouns in Lesson 1. You can just go and fill the link with your exercises as content! -- Thomas

Llena los espacios en blanco con la forma verbal correcta del verbo "ser". Fill the blank spaces with the correct form of the ver "ser" (to be).

Llena los espacios en blanco con la forma verbal correcta del verbo "estar". Fill the blank spaces with the correct form of the ver "estar" (to be).

Llena los espacios en blanco con la forma verbal correcta del verbo "ser" o "estar". Fill the blank spaces with the correct form of the ver "ser" or "estar" (to be).