Grammatical gender, the hard casesC1Practice
El or la?
English nouns have no gender, so this is the one thing about a Spanish noun English never trains you to notice. On the copy desk of a local paper in Cádiz, six scenes take you through the nouns whose ending or article misleads, and the ones whose meaning turns on el or la.
MarkoHi, I'm Marko. English never asks whether a table is masculine; Spanish asks it of every noun. Today we take the hard ones.
6Scenes~7minEN → ES
- 1Two words in oneSort
- 2Saturday's forecastBuild
- 3The sketchesMatch
- 4The photo captionFind the mistake
- 5The style guidePick all that fit
- 6The harbour muralType
Practice mode: after each scene you see the rule and a natural way to say it.