Spanish: Articles

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While english has only two articles, "the" and "a/an", spanish articles have to agree with the gender and number of the noun they go with:

• definite, singular, masculine: the - el
• definite, singular, feminine: the - la
• definite, plural, masculine: the - los
• definite, plural, feminine: the - las

• indefinite, singular, masculine: a - un
• indefinite, singular, feminine: a - una
• indefinite, plural, masculine: (some) - unos
• indefinite, plural, feminine: (some) - unas

In English there is no indefinite article, one says "a house" and the plural would just be "houses". In spanish however there is a plural indefinite article as well, it could be translated by "some" for clarity, but should usually be left untranslated:

Example:

• El perro = The dog
• La casa = The house
• Un perro = A dog
• Una casa = A house
• Los perros = The dogs
• Las casas = The houses
• Unos perros = dogs
• Unas casas = houses

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