Take a look at this unusual preview board of Spanish adjective endings now! Some adjectives are used for both sexes despite their ending, especially those ending in -E or consonants, for example: "an interesting libro", "a fácil examination", "a chico optimista/una chica optimista". Adjectives ending in o in the singular masculine form have four possible endings, one for man, one for woman, singular and plural. These types of adjectives make up the majority of adjectives in Spanish. We will start this lesson with a video explaining the basic rules for using Spanish adjectives. The person in the video only speaks Spanish, but you can also enable the subtitles (cc) below to translate into English or check the script. This video contains some examples and notes that will be very useful to learn more about how Spanish adjectives work in the language. On the other hand, when describing feminine nouns like CASA (house), we should use a feminine adjective like BONITA (pretty) or ESPACIOSA (spacious), and not a masculine adjective like BONITO or ESPACIOSO. That being said, Spanish feminine adjectives are the same words with a slight change at the end from -O to -A, e.B. "Bueno" to "Buena". In Spanish, adjectives must correspond to the noun (or pronoun) they describe in gender and number. This means that if the noun describing an adjective is feminine, the adjective must be feminine, and if the same noun is also plural, the adjective will also be feminine AND plural. Some examples of common Spanish masculine adjectives are: Afortunado (happy), Old (large), Bajo (short), Bueno (good), Estupendo (large), Famoso (famous), Malo (bad) and Pequeño (small) It is possible to render some masculine adjectives feminine by adding -A at the end when the words end with a consonant, but not in all cases, for example "Trabajador / Trabajadora" (right) and "Populara / Populara" (false). Most nationalities also change gender, including some that end with consonants such as "español->española".

Adjectives can come before or after nouns, or they can be used with verbs such as ser ("to be") to describe nouns. But (with the exception of immutable adjectives), they will always correspond to the nouns they describe both in number and gender. As mentioned earlier, Spanish adjectives usually have a singular form and a plural form. The rules are exactly the same as those used to form the plural of nouns. To illustrate this, for a sentence like "She is a pretty model", we would say "Ella es una modelo hermosa", but for several models we have to say "Ellas son modelos hermosas". Note that all words, including the subject pronoun and the ser verb, change, so there is a real correspondence between the Spanish noun and the adjective, and the sentence makes sense. An explanation of how adjectives and agreement are used in the Spanish noun-adjective-adjective correspondence is one of the most fundamental aspects of Spanish grammar: adjectives must correspond to the nouns to which they refer both in number and gender. Exception: For adjectives that end in z in the singular, replace the z with a c before adding the plural extension. Congratulations - You have completed the grammar quiz: Spanish adjective gender agreement. Spanish adjectives are usually listed in their singular masculine form in dictionaries, so it`s important to know how to match these masculine singular adjectives with the noun you`re describing.

Most adjectives end with their singular masculine forms on o, e or a consonant. Here are the rules for assigning these adjectives to their respective nouns in gender and number. If you search for an adjective in the dictionary, it is always in the singular masculine form, e.B. Blanco. Adjectives in Spanish usually follow the patterns in this table to match the noun they describe. The adjective agreement means that the adjective "corresponds" to the noun it describes in gender and number. Some adjectives remain the same, whether they describe a male or female noun. These adjectives usually end with E.

The same rule applies to certain articles (the equivalent of "the") and indefinite articles (a class of words that contain "a", "an" and "any" in English), which are sometimes considered types of adjectiveswww.thoughtco.com/noun-adjective-agreement-3078114. There are a few adjectives known as immutable adjectives that do not change shape. Most of them are either unusual colors or words of foreign origin. An example is web as in the página web (the website) and las páginas web (the websites). Sometimes a noun can be used as an immutable adjective, but this practice is much rarer in Spanish than in English. If you are a Spanish student, you rarely need to use immutable adjectives, but you should be aware that they exist so that they do not confuse you when you see them. The rule that has no English equivalent is that singular nouns are accompanied by singular adjectives, and plural nouns are accompanied by plural adjectives. Masculine nouns are described or limited by masculine adjectives, and feminine nouns are described or limited by feminine adjectives. Un taco es una preparación mexicana que en su forma estándar consiste en una tortilla que contiene algún alimento dentro. (A taco is a Mexican preparation that, in its standard form, consists of a tortilla that contains food. Su is a possessive determinant or dojective that changes with number, but not with sex. .