![]() “Uncle” and “aunt,” for example, are el tío and la tía. While most nouns refer to objects and concepts that don’t have gender, there are also the nouns that do. Spanish Nouns That Can Be Both Masculine And Feminine But, more exceptions! These noun endings can tip you off that a noun is probably feminine. Maybe you could make up your own! Something like… ZAD?Īs we mention in the masculine section, many words that end in -e are masculine. Unlike the masculine, there’s no fun acronym for feminine nouns. If a word ends with these three letters, you can be almost certain it’s a feminine noun. One of the biggest exceptions to the LONERS rule we talked about for masculine nouns above is -ión. While some of these exceptions just have to be memorized, you can scroll up and see that a lot of exceptions have their own rules in the -ta, -ma and -pa section. If you happen to have an excellent grasp on etymology, you’ll have a leg up! Spanish Nouns That Are Feminine -aĭespite the many exceptions noted above, a great majority of Spanish words that end in -a are feminine. ![]() Fortunately, even the exceptions have rules.įor those interested in a little history, masculine Spanish nouns that end in -ta, -pa and -ma tend to come from Greek originally. ta, -ma and -paĪs you’ll see in a moment, most words that end in -a are feminine, but there are exceptions. Memorizing just the exceptions will be a lot easier than memorizing every single word in the Spanish language. But really, the LONERS rule will work for you almost every time. We know, we know, the exceptions are very frustrating. You can’t apply it to plural nouns or that would mean that every word would be masculine. One warning, though: the “S” in LONERS refers to nouns that are singular, like el mes. We covered “o” above because it really requires its own section, but this is a good general rule of thumb. The idea here is that words that end in any of the letters L-O-N-E-R-S tend to be masculine. One mnemonic device for learning masculine endings is LONERS. La disco is short for la discoteca, and la foto is short for la foto grafía. ![]() While some exceptions (like la mano) are just exceptions, many words that seemingly end in -o are actually shortenings of other words. We’ll start with the most obvious, which is that most words that end in “o” are going to be masculine.
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