grammar · foundations

Articles and grammatical gender

Choose an article from the noun's grammatical gender, not from assumptions about people.

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el / un libro · la / una casa los libros · las casas

El and la introduce masculine and feminine singular nouns; un and una introduce one or an unspecified item. Learn a noun with its article. Many -o nouns are masculine and many -a nouns feminine, but endings are not a universal rule: la mano and el día are exceptions. Grammatical gender does not make an object a male or female speaker.

See the difference

El libro está aquí.

The book is here.

La casa es grande.

The house is big.

La mano está limpia.

The hand is clean.

Audio help

Voices are automatic: Orus reinforces masculine personal descriptions; Leda is used for feminine, neutral or ambiguous content. Explicit speaker metadata takes priority. Ordinary masculine nouns do not select a male voice. New recordings are prepared only on Play and saved for reuse. Both voices share the owner-approved monthly budget and 100 new recordings per browser profile per UTC day. Cached audio remains available when the budget is reached. If Google audio is unavailable, Spanish browser audio is labeled Browser Voice. If playback is blocked, use Tap to Play.

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