Spanish agreement has nothing to do with opinions; it’s a grammatical function of the language. Just as verbs change to agree with their subjects in most languages (“I am” vs “you are”), so too do adjectives and pronouns in Spanish: they change to agree in gender and number with whatever word they modify or replace (un hombre alto vs una mujer alta).
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One of the eight parts of speech, adjectives are a type of modifier; that is, they modify or describe nouns in a certain way, letting you know the size, shape, weight, color, nationality, or any of a myriad other possible qualities of nouns.
A1 - Beginning Spanish • agreement • lesson plans • plurals • spelling
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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
Demonstrative adjectives (this, that) are used to indicate a specific noun or nouns. In Spanish, they must agree with the noun(s) in gender and number, and there are 3 different sets: este, ese, aquel.
A2 - Low-Intermediate Spanish • agreement • demonstratives • lesson plans
Demonstrative pronouns (this one, that one, the one[s], these, those) refer to a previously-mentioned noun in a sentence. Spanish demonstrative pronouns are more complicated than their English counterparts, because there are three different sets and because they must agree in gender and number with the noun they replace.
agreement • B2 - Upper-Intermediate Spanish • demonstratives • lesson plans • plurals
The Spanish relative pronoun el cual usually means “who” or “whom” and has four different forms.
agreement • B1 - Intermediate Spanish • plurals
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A1 - Beginning Spanish • agreement
The aptly named indefinite article (un, una, unos, unas) indicates an unspecific or unidentified countable noun.
A1 - Beginning Spanish • agreement • gender • indefinition • lesson plans • plurals
Indefinite pronouns are vague – they either refer to unspecific nouns (like un otro and algo) or make sweeping generalizations (cada uno, todo).