Spanish Nouns

List of 10 facts about Spanish nouns with links to lessons for beginning and intermediate Spanish students.

Although nearly all nouns in Spanish are clearly masculine or clearly feminine, there are some exceptions.

Definition of Gender as it is used in English and Spanish.

What is a noun? This glossary explains and provides examples in Spanish and English.

In Spanish, nouns can be classified into two categories, masculine and feminine. This lesson explains the concept of grammatical gender and gives examples of what difference it makes.

Numerical collectives are used much more in Spanish than they are in English. In fact, many such collectives have no single-word English equivalent.

Spanish and English have similar ways of making nouns plural. But there are some significant differences you need to know.

Just as maleness or femaleness is an inherent characteristic of human beings and most animals, so is gender an inherent characteristic of nouns in Spanish.

Do you know the rules of Spanish pluralization? Find out by taking this quiz.

Glossary definition of 'uncountable noun' and how the term is used in Spanish and English grammar. Uncountable nouns are also known as mass nouns.

A few Spanish nouns can be either masculine or feminine and have their meanings change depending on the gender. This lesson features a list of the most common ones.

Although augmentative suffixes aren't as common in Spanish as diminutive suffixes, they are frequently added to nouns as a way of expanding vocabulary or providing a nuance of meaning, often a negative one.

Learn what collective nouns are and how they are used in English and Spanish.

Glossary definition of 'object' with explanations of direct objects, indirect objects and prepositional objects.

Learn how Spanish diminutive suffixes are used to indicate not only the size of objects but also to show the speaker's feelings toward them.

You can't always tell the gender of a noun by its ending.

Male animals can have feminine gender in Spanish, and vice versa.

In Spanish, gender is a type of classification that is applied to nouns, pronouns and adjectives.

Almost any Spanish adjective can be turned into a noun. Here's how, along with many examples.

Collective nouns are sometimes treated as singular, sometimes as plural.

When two singular nouns are joined by the conjunction o, they can be treated as either a singular or plural unit, depending on the context.

Answer to the question: If I know the Spanish verb, can I predict what the noun might be?

The suffix -miento is used to turn verbs into nouns.

One of the basic rules of Spanish grammar is that adjectives must agree with the nouns they refer to in both number and gender.

Glossary entry for 'neuter.'

Two-word nouns, which are increasingly used in journalese, are essentially the same as a noun followed by an invariable adjective.

Past participles, which exist in both Spanish and English, are a verb form that can be used as an adjective and sometimes a noun.

Although diminutive endings are most common with nouns, they can be added to other parts of speech as well.

If you know how to make nouns plural in English, you're close to knowing how to do so in Spanish.