Note that although an adjective must correspond to its noun in gender, in case and number, it does not necessarily have to correspond in declension; For example, an adjective of the 3rd declension can modify a noun of the 1st or 2nd declension: Separatistas is masculine plural and agrees with vascos (masculine plural plural) and Catalan (undifferentiated plural plural, but is the standard masculine masculine unless otherwise stated). Translate the following sentences or sentences into English. Check your vocabulary for words you don`t know and your noun/pronoun declension tables and adjective declension diagrams for this module if necessary. The number tells us whether the noun in question is singular or plural. Therefore, it also plays a role in determining the form that the modifier adjective can take (more on this below). When nouns act as the subject of the sentence, the number also helps us determine the correct form of the verb (subject-verb correspondence). It works like English. For example, you wouldn`t say “boys go to school”; On the contrary, the plural subject “boys” must have a plural verb to agree with it: “Boys go to school”. An explanation of how to use adjectives and agreement in Spanish There is a special subset of names from the third declension known as i-strains.
These nouns contain an -i- in some cases/ numeric endings: Two appointment adjectives can be recognized by the fact that their entry in the dictionary consists of two adjective forms ending in -is and -e, respectively. In two term adjectives, the first form (i.e. fortis) tells us the singular masculine AND feminine nominative form and the second form (i.e. strong) is the singular nominative form neutrum. An adverb: “currently”, “at present”. The suffix -mente applied to feminine adjectives corresponds to the English suffix -ly. The real root adjective is an amigo falso or false friend that has an unexpected meaning: “current”, “present” (in the temporal sense of “present”). An appointment adjective can be recognized by the extension -is in the second part of the dictionary entry. In the dictionary entry for a terminus adjective, the first form (i.e. ferox) means the nominative singular for all three genders (hence the noun “a ending”), and the second form (i.e.
ferocis) means the genitive singular for all three sexes. Like adjectives with three and two endings, a terminating adjective generally decreases like third declension nouns, except in the genitive plural for all genders and in the plural neutral nominative (as well as in the ablative singular). As mentioned earlier, Spanish adjectives usually have a singular form and a plural form. The rules are exactly the same as those used to form the plural of nouns. To illustrate this, for a sentence like “She is a pretty model”, we would say “Ella es una modelo hermosa”, but for several models we have to say “Ellas son modelos hermosas”. Note that all words, including the subject pronoun and the verb SER, change so that there is a Spanish noun-adjective correspondence and the sentence makes sense. Un taco es una preparación mexicana que en su forma estándar consiste en una tortilla que contiene algún alimento dentro. (A taco is a Mexican preparation that, in its standard form, consists of a tortilla that contains food. Su is a possessive determinant or dojective that changes with number but not sex. Estándar is an immutable adjective – the same word would have been used with plural or masculine nouns.) The full declension table for adjectives 2-1-2 can be found here. Based on this agreement, the gender or number of an adjective, or both together, identifies the noun to be changed by matching gender and/or number. Similarly (the same principle in reverse order), if you are sure of the noun that an adjective changes, then the gender of the adjective will tell you the gender of the noun.
Some Spanish adjectives used to describe male and female nouns are: Amable (type), Difícil (difficult), Fácil (simple), Flexible, Paciente (patient), Verde (green). In addition, most numbers, with the exception of number one, which turns into UN when used before a masculine noun, and una before a feminine noun, e.B. “Un amigo” and “Una amiga” Just like nouns, dictionary entries for adjectives tell us which declension(s) they belong to and how to form them. Dictionary entries for adjectives are of four types: adjectives in Spanish correspond to the noun both in gender and number. .