¡Avancemos! – Español 1 – Unidad 1, Lección 2

1. ¿Cómo eres tú? – What are you like? What is your personality or appearance?

2. artístico(a) – artistic

3. atlético(a) – athletic

4. bueno(a) – good, good natured

5. cómico(a) – funny, comical

6. desorganizado(a) – disorganized

7. estudioso(a) – studious

8. inteligente – intelligent

9. malo(a) – bad, bad natured

10. organizado(a) – organized

11. perezoso(a) – lazy

12. serio(a) – serious

13. simpático(a) – nice

14. trabajador(a) – hard-working

15. alto(a) – tall

16. bajo(a) – short (height)

17. bonito(a) – pretty

18. grande – big, large

19. guapo(a) – good-looking, attractive

20. joven – young (jóvenes – young plural)

21. pelirrojo(a) – red-haired

22. pequeño(a) – small

23. viejo(a) – old

24. Yo tengo – I have

25. Él tiene pelo rubio. – He has blonde hair.

26. Ella tiene pelo castaño. – She has brown hair.

27. el amigo, la amiga – friend (male/female)

28. la chica – girl

29. el chico – boy

30. el estudiante, la estudiante – student (male/female)

31. el hombre – man

32. la mujer – woman

33. la persona – person

34. muy – very

35. un poco – a little

36. porque – because (Por que – Why?)

37. todos(as) – all, every whole

Noun-Adjective Agreement

***An adjective must agree in number and gender with the noun it is describing!***

If an adjective ends in a vowel, add “s” to make it plural.

If an adjective ends in a consonant, add “es” to make it plural.

An adjective usually gets placed behind the noun it describes.

EX: las chicas bonitas – the pretty girls

los chicos populares – the popular boys

el estudiante nuevo – the new student

Exception: A quantity adjective gets placed in front of the noun it describes.

Yo tengo tres libros. I have 3 books.

Definite and Indefinite Articles – Making Nouns Plural

Nouns in Spanish have gender. The noun is either masculine or feminine.

If a noun ends in “-o”, it is usually masculine.

If a noun end in “-a”, “-cion” or “-dad” it is usually feminine.

Some nouns don’t follow these rules, and need to be memorized.

el, la, los, las = the

el & la are used with singular nouns.

los & las are used with plural nouns.

STEP 1:

El turns into los

La turns into las

Un turns into unos un, una – a, an

Una turns into unas unos, unas – some, any, a few

STEP 2:

If the noun ends in a vowel, add “s”

If the noun ends in consonant, add “es”

If the noun ends in “z”, change the “z” to a “c”, and “es”

EXAMPLES:

la amiga → las amigas

el libro → los libros

el examen → los examenes

el lapiz → los lapices