Describing People & Classes
Translate aburrido in English.
What is "boring"?
Translate la amiga in English.
What is "female friend" or "girl friend"?
Translate mexicano in English.
What is "Mexican"?
In Spanish, almost all nouns that end in this letter are masculine.
What is the letter "-o"?
Translate the sentence "Yo soy estudiante" in English.
What is "I am a student"?
Translate aplicado in English.
What is "hard-working" or "studious"?
Translate la educación física in English.
What is "physical education" (P.E.)?
Translate ¿De qué nacionalidad? in English.
What is "Of what nationality?
Translate the definite articles el and la in English.
What is "the"?
Translate the sentence "Ella es simpática" in English.
What is "She is nice/friendly"?
Translate antipático in English.
What is "mean" or "unfriendly"?
Translate el joven and la joven in English.
What are "the young man" and "the young woman"?
Translate puertorriqueño in English.
What is "Puerto Rican"?
Translate the plural phrase los muchachos in English.
What is "the boys"?
Translate the sentence "Tú eres inteligente" in English.
What is "You are intelligent/smart"?
Translate "funny" in Spanish.
What is "cómico" and "gracioso" ?
How do you say "social studies"? in Spanish?
What are los estudios sociales?
Translate "Cuban" and "Colombian" in Spanish.
What are cubano and colombiano ?
Translate "some friends" (male or mixed group) in Spanish.
What is unos amigos?
Translate the sentence "We are friends" in Spanish.
What is "Nosotros somos amigos" ?
Translate "difficult/hard" and "easy" in Spanish.
What are "difícil" and "fácil"?
How do you say "the student" (male) and "the teacher/professor" (female) in Spanish?
What are el alumno and la profesora ?
Translate "Chilean" and "Peruvian" in Spanish.
What are chileno and peruano?
Because nouns ending in this letter do not follow a strict gender rule, you must memorize their articles.
What is the letter "-e"?
Translate the sentence "They are Argentinian" in Spanish.
What is "Ellos son argentinos"?
Translate the sentence "The short, dark-haired girl is very intelligent" in Spanish.
What is "La muchacha baja y morena es muy inteligente" (or "La joven baja y morena...")?
Translate the sentence "The secondary school course is quite difficult" in Spanish.
What is "El curso secundario es bastante difícil" (or "La clase secundaria es bastante difícil")
Translate the sentence "Who is Guatemalan?" when asking a group of multiple people in Spanish.
What is "¿Quiénes son guatemaltecos?" (or "¿Quiénes son guatemaltecas?")?
A. State the general grammar rule for determining the gender of nouns ending in "-o" versus nouns ending in "-a" in Spanish
B. Explain how to change a descriptive adjective like rubio when talking about a female.
A. What are nouns ending in "-o" are masculine, nouns ending in "-a" are feminine ?
B. What is change the final "-o" to an "-a" to match a female noun?
You all are from Spain" using the vosotros pronoun in Spanish.
What is "Vosotros sois de España" (or "Vosotras sois de España")?