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Adjective agreement – masculine and feminine
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Es jueves, el 25 de mayo de 2017
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This week we’ve been working with adjectives or descriptive words that give nice detail to our sentences.
We’ve looked at how they match up or agree with the word they are describing.
1. Ends in an -o, it agrees with gender and number
2. Ends in an -e or a consonant, it agrees only in number
3. Ends in -dor, it agrees in gender and number
4. Nationalities have unique rules all their own – see below.
Adjetivos – ending in -o, -e, consonant, -dor
activo/a – active
agradable – pleasant
antiguo/a / moderno/a – ancient or old /modern
alto/a / bajo/a – tall / short
bonito/a / feo/a – pretty / ugly
bueno/a / malo/a – good / bad
caro/a / barato/a – expensive / inexpensive
cómico/a / serio/a – funny / serious
dulce / agrio/a – sweet / sour
emocionante – exciting
extraordinario/a – extraordinary
fácil / difícil – easy / hard
generoso/a – generous
guapo/a – handsome
hablador/a – talkative
honesto/a – honest
imposible – impossible
largo/a / corto/a – long / short
listo/a – clever
mucho/a / poco /a– a lot / a little
ofensivo/a – ofensive
paciente – patient
pequeño/a / grande – small / big (size)
rápido/a / lento/a – fast / slow
romántico/a – romantic
suave – soft, smooth, cool(neat)
sincero/a – sincere
sencillo/a – simple
terrible – terrible
trabajador/a / flojo/a /huevón/a – hardworking / lazy/couch potato
vivo/a – lively
Los colores básicos
amarillo/a – yellow
anaranjado/a – orange
azul – blue
blanco/a – white
café/marrón – brown
dorado/a – golden
gris – gray
morado/a – purple
negro/a – black
plateado/a – silver(colored)
rojo/a – yellow
rosado/a – yellow
verde – green
claro/a – light
azul claro – light blue
oscuro/a – dark
azul oscuro – dark blue
Nacionalidades (en grupos)
Note: The nationality is often the name of the the language, (alemán, italiano, francés, japonés) and languages are always masculine.
Nationalities and languages are not capitalized in Spanish.
Ends in -o (agrees in gender and number)
colombiano/a – Colombian
ecuatoriano/a – Ecuadorian
boliviano/a – Bolivian
italiano/a – Italian
australiano/a – Australian
Ends in -es (agrees in gender and number)
francés/a – French
holandés/a – Dutch
irlandés/a – Ecuadorian
japonés/a – Japanese
portugués/a – Portugues
Ends in -n or -l (agrees in gender and number)
alemán/a– German
español/a – Spaniard
Ends in -se (agrees in number only)
canadiense – Canadian
costarrisense – Costa Rican
estadounidense – United Statesian
nicaragüense – Nicaraguan
Additional: (agrees in number only)
árabe – Arab
belga – Belgian
israelí – Israeli
Using the the verb ser, fill in the blank.
Action step:
1. In your notebook, write down the following sentence starter and then fill in the blank using words from above.
2. translate the phrases
1.
1. Yo soy __________ y _______________. – I am ____________ and ___________________
2. Tú eres __________ y _______________. – You are ____________ and ___________________
3. Marco es __________ y _______________. – Mark is____________ and ___________________
4. Mi amiga es __________ y _______________. – My friend is ____________ and ___________________
5. Mi carro es __________ y _______________. – My car is ____________ and ___________________
6. Mi familia y yo somos __________ y _______________. – My family and I are ____________ and ___________________
7. Mis amigos son __________ y _______________. – My friends are ____________ and ___________________
8. Las islas son __________ y _______________. – The islands are ____________ and ___________________
2. Translate
a. vino francés
b. la comida italiana
c. ella es portuguesa
d. ellos son irlandeses
e. somos alemanes
f. es un restaurante japonés
g. quiero una cerveza oscura/clara
h. crema agria
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Gracias y hasta mañana,
Carolina
