Nouns & Articles
A1: Beginner
- Months of the year are masculine
- Days of the week are masculine
- Cardinal points are masculine
- Numbers are masculine
- Gender of living creatures
- Letters from the alphabet are feminine
- Using definite articles el, la, los, las with bodyparts and clothing (definite articles)
- Contracted masculine singular articles: al and del
- Forming the plural of nouns ending in -z
- Forming regular masculine and feminine nouns (singular and plural)
- Using unos, unas + plural nouns to say some / a few (plural indefinite articles)
- Using numbers + nouns
- Gender and plural formation of nouns ending in -e
- Forming the plural of nouns ending in a consonant (except -z)
A2: Lower Intermediate
- Some nouns ending in -o (shortened from a feminine noun) are feminine
- Nouns that are plural in English but singular in Spanish, and vice versa
- Gender of nouns ending in -umbre, -ión, -dad, -tad, -tis and -sis and their plural
- Using the diminutive suffix -ito, -ita, -itos and -itas with words ending in -o/-a/-io/-ia
- Nouns ending in -or are masculine
- Using plural definite article + number + noun
- Using unos, unas + number = about/approximately
- Gender and plural of nouns ending in -ma (greek origin)
- Gender and plural of nouns ending in -esa, -triz, -ina, -isa
B1: Intermediate
- Using neutral article Lo + adjective + ser in Spanish
- Presence of the definite articles el/la/los/las
- Using the diminutive suffix -cito, -cita, -citos and -citas with words ending in -e, -n, and -r
- Nouns ending in -aje are masculine
- Gender of nouns ending in -ista and -crata
- Some nouns have both genders without a change of meaning
B2: Upper Intermediate