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Is house in spanish masculine or feminine. F a word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech e g. We know that all people have gender but in spanish all nouns have gender. Masculine and feminine spanish. The default gender for foreign words adopted into the language is masculine but a feminine gender is sometimes acquired if there s a reason for doing so.
This means that every word for a person place thing or idea is either masculine or feminine. Adjectives that end in o in the masculine singular form have four possible endings one each for masculine feminine singular and plural. Spanish nouns have a gender which is either feminine like la mujer or la luna or masculine like el hombre or el sol. In this video we re going to be covering 10 rules with exceptions for how to know if a noun will be masculine or feminine in spanish.
Other sites use scripted content. Spanish nouns have a gender which is either feminine like la mujer or la luna or masculine like el hombre or el sol. Any adjective used to describe an apple in spanish must also be feminine for example roja. These types of adjectives make up the majority of adjectives in spanish.
Masculine words usually end in the vowels e or o like padre and maestro whereas feminine words end with the vowel a such as hermana and casa. For example apples manzanas are feminine in spanish so this word must be used with feminine articles like la las and una. M an adjective is a word that describes a noun e g. Fluentu takes real world videos like music videos commercials news and inspiring talks and turns them into spanish learning experiences.
Thus foreign nouns that end in a sometimes become feminine as do some words related in meaning to a spanish feminine word. As a general rule we recognize the gender of spanish nouns by looking at the word ending. Please remember that you don t have to memorize this list. Spanish nouns have a gender which is either feminine like la mujer or la luna or masculine like el hombre or el sol.
On the other hand bananas plátanos are masculine and must be used with masculine articles and adjectives.