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Stage 2: Gender of the nouns and difference between “bien” and “bueno”
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3 years ago
Stage 2: Gender of the nouns and difference between “bien” and “bueno”
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Good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Welcome to Spanish Route. The program, the podcast to learn Spanish in the easiest and most fun way.
My name is Sergio and I am your personal Spanish trainer.
This is the second program, second stage on your way to Spanish. And it will also be very easy.
Today I will deal with the subject of the genders of the names or nouns in Spanish, which is a characteristic of the languages of Latin origin.
I will also explain, as I said in the previous class, the differences between "bueno" and "bien" and between "malo" and "mal" . That can be a bit confusing for those who start learning Spanish.
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Genre of the nouns in Spanish
Today we are going to talk about the genre of nouns.
In Spanish, the names and nouns have a gender. These words are masculine or feminine, whether referring to people or animals (with male or female sex) or referring to objects and concepts without biological sex. This characteristic of the language is due to its Latin origin and it shares it with other languages that derive from Latin like French or Italian.
El niño / la niña (The boy / The girl)
" El niño " is a masculine noun. "La niña" is a feminine noun.
El perro / la perra (The dog / The bitch)
"El perro" is masculine noun and "la perra" is the feminine noun.
El león / la leona (The lion / The lioness)
"El león" is masculine. " la leona" is the feminine one.
They are names of things and concepts without sex words like:
El libro, la casa, el amor, la amistad (The book, the house, love, friendship).
The word libro ("el libro") is masculine, although it does not have sex. The same goes for "la casa" (feminine word), "el amor" (masculine noun), "la amistad" (feminine noun).
Therefore, the names of people and animals can change according to sex, but the names of things and concepts that are not animals or people never change.
Gender concordance
When a name or noun is accompanied by an article and an adjective these have to be used in the same genre as the noun. It is what is known as "concordance ".
This is the reason for the existence of certain articles " El" and "La" and the indeterminate "un" and "una" and the variations of the adjectives for the case that describe masculine or feminine nouns.
El coche rojo / Un coche rojo (The red car / a red car)
La casa blanca / una casa blanca (The white house / a white house)
Differences between masculine and feminine gender
Generally, the names ending in -o are masculine and the names ending in -a are feminine. For example:
