Definite Article – el, la, los, las
The Spanish definite article has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies, and it doesn’t always correspond to an article in other languages.
The Spanish definite article has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies, and it doesn’t always correspond to an article in other languages.
A1 - Beginning Spanish • agreement • gender • lesson plans • plurals
The singular indefinite articles in Spanish correspond to “a, an, one” in English. The plurals correspond to “some.” There are four Spanish indefinite articles.
A1 - Beginning Spanish • agreement • gender • indefinition • lesson plans • plurals
Spanish’s neuter article, lo, is invariable and can be used in front of just about any adjective in order to express something abstract or a quality.
B1 - Intermediate Spanish • exclamations • neuter
Test yourself on the Spanish neuter article lo in this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:
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Test yourself on definite and indefinite articles with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:
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There’s an interesting phenomenon in Spanish regarding feminine nouns that begin with a stressed A sound. When these nouns are singular and preceded directly by a definite article, the masculine article is used instead of the feminine article you might expect.