Descriptive adjectives

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Descriptive adjectives

• An adjective describes.

Created by Rebecca Roa
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Whats to know?

• Masculine and feminine nouns and adjectives.
• Agreement in number.

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Spanish uses nouns that are either feminine or
masculine.
The nouns also change to be singular and
plural.(number)
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The end of a noun usually signifies the gender.
-a
-o
female
male
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The s at the end shows a plural noun.
-os
-as
Masculine plural
Feminine plural
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In Spanish the adjective agrees with the noun it
describes in gender.

• The adjective bonito will change to bonita when
  used to describe a noun which is feminine.
• el vestido bonito
• la camiseta bonita

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In Spanish the adjective agrees with the noun it
describes in number.

• The adjective alto/a will change to altos/as when
  used to describe more than one noun.

• plural forms (1)
• los amigos altos
• las casa altas
• singular forms (1)
• el amigo alto
• la casa alta

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Examples Juan es alto. Pedro es tonto. Gloria
es delgada Rosa y Andy son inteligentes.
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When both masculine and feminine nouns are
described by one adjective the masculine form is
used.

• Juan es alto.
• Julia es alta.
• Juan y Julia son altos.

In Spanish, the Male dominates.
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El abuelo
es
simpático y viejo.
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La abuela es simpática y vieja.
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Los
abuel
son
simpátic
os
os
y
viej
os
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alta
altos
bajo
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bonita
bonitos
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INTENTALO!
Ramon es _______. Gloria es _______. Los amigos
son ________. Gorge es ______.
guapo
bajo guapo rubia buenos
rubia
buenos
bajo