Nouns are our guiding force when learning Spanish.\u00a0Without them, we wouldn’t be able to name the objects, places, people and ideas we interact with daily.\u00a0In a world without nouns, everything would be “it” and every person would be “he,” “she” or “them.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this post, you’ll learn 80 common Spanish nouns and how to use them, plus explore the nine noun types.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Nouns are used to name physical objects<\/strong>, people<\/strong>, places,<\/strong>\u00a0animals<\/strong>\u00a0and invisible things such as ideas<\/strong>, qualities<\/strong> or actions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n They’re also typically the subject<\/strong> or the object<\/strong> in a sentence and can be the object of a preposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let’s have a look at all this in action:<\/p>\n Mar\u00eda<\/strong> come helado<\/strong> en el parque<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0(Mar\u00eda eats ice cream in the park.)<\/p>\n If we break this sentence down, we can see that:<\/p>\n Let’s try one more:<\/p>\n Los perros<\/strong> no comen carne<\/strong> en Madrid.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Dogs don’t eat meat in Madrid.)<\/p>\n In this sentence,<\/p>\n As in any other language, nouns in Spanish can be classified into different groups depending on their nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n In English, we have proper nouns, abstract nouns, countable nouns, collective nouns, etc\u2014and it’s very similar in Spanish. Let’s take a look!<\/p>\n You already know Spanish nouns are either masculine or feminine. But nouns must also match the adjectives<\/a> and quantities<\/strong> before and after them.<\/p>\n For example, let’s take the feminine noun la <\/em>manzana<\/em> (the apple).<\/p>\n If you want to say, “the red apple,” you’d say:<\/p>\n La manzana roja.<\/strong><\/em> (The red apple.)<\/p>\n Because apple (manzana)<\/em> is feminine, red (<\/em>rojo\/a)<\/em> must be feminine, too.<\/p>\n If you want to make the noun plural to say “the three red apples,” you’d say:<\/p>\n\n
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Spanish Noun Agreement<\/h2>\n