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Articles

As in many languages, Spanish gives each noun a gender: masculine or feminine, both for singular things and plural ones.

Spanish, like English, has two articles: the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a" or "an"). However, there are 4 forms, depending on the number and gender of the noun. The plural indefinite article is "some" in English.

• If the noun ends in a vowel, to make it plural, add s (gato - "cat"; gatos - "cats").
• If the noun ends in a consonant, to make it plural, add es (papel - "paper"; papeles - "papers").

Happily, the gender of Spanish nouns is usually pretty easy to work out. Some very simple rules-of-thumb:

• If it ends in a, d, z or ión: it's likely to be feminine.
• If it ends in o, a consonant: it's likely to be masculine.

Definite articles

Indefinite articles

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