Grammatical gender, the hard casesC1Práctica
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.
6Escenas~7minES → ES
- 1Two words in oneClasifica
- 2Saturday's forecastConstruye
- 3The sketchesEmpareja
- 4The photo captionEncuentra el error
- 5The style guideElige las que valen
- 6The harbour muralEscribe
Modo práctica: después de cada escena ves la regla y una forma natural de decirlo.