French definite articles

Definite articles – how to say ‘the’ using le, la, l’ or les

The word reloj is masculine so the article must also be masculine to match it this is called gender agreement /agreement of gender!

Lápiz is gendered masculine in Spansh, so the definite article is el and the indefinite article is un.

1 Answer. un lápiz. It’s a masculine noun, so it takes “un”. “An” and “a” are English, so they won’t work as articles for Spanish nouns.

Aside from that. . . “professor” applies to both males and females. Unlike Spanish (profesor / profesora), there is no English word specifically for a female professor.

In general, most nouns that end with “O” are masculine, so the article is el. But not all of them. Mano just happens to be an exception. It is feminine, despite the “O” ending, so the article is la.

But there are plenty of exceptions to this gender rule, of which the two best known are mano, the word for hand, which is feminine, and día, the word for day, which is masculine.

Spanish, literally, hand, from Latin manus — more at manual.

2 Answers. The article el is used before singular feminine nouns that begin with a stressed a or ha. In the case of hamburguesa, the stress is not on the first syllable, so the article la is used.

The Spanish word azúcar means “sugar.” It is invariably masculine.

Cruz left Cuba in 1960, believing she would return. The exhibit is called “Azucar, the Life and Music of Celia Cruz.” Azucar literally means “sugar,” but as Perez notes, it served Cruz as a “battle cry” and an allusion to African slaves who worked Cuba’s sugar plantations.

The word salt. “sal”. seemed to have changed gender when it arrived in Iberia. It was masculine in Latin and in Italian, French, Galician and Portuguese, it remains so.

You use ‘blanco’ when you are describing a masculine noun, and ‘blanca’ when you are describing a feminine noun: vino blanco – white wine (‘vino’ is a masculine noun)

Noun. blanco (plural blancos) white person, usually a white man.