ADJECTIVES.ppt

ADJECTIVES Nouns (un repaso) ADJECTIVES… Adjectives must match the NUMBER and the GENDER of the noun they describe!!!! Tall Alto Alta Altos Altas Estupido Estupido Estupida Estupidos Estupidas Strong Fuerte Fuerte Fuertes Fuertes Hard Working trabajador trabajadora trabajadores trabajadoras Práctica – How do you say… Short boy Short girl Short boys Short girls Strong man Strong woman Strong men Strong women The Tall girls The Long pants The White shoes The Green blouse The Boring teacher The Blue eyes The Red hair The Black book * * We can learn 3 important pieces of information from a NOUN: Examples: DEFINITION GENDER (male, female) NUMBER (singular, plural) Conejo Rabbit Male Singular THE DEFINITION AND THE GENDER OF A NOUN WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER CHANGE!!! How can you tell… The NUMBER of a noun? EXAMPLES If it ends in “s”, its probably PLURAL If it does not end with “s”, its probably SINGULAR Libros, mujeres, computadoras Pelo, familia, papel How can you tell… The GENDER of a noun? EXAMPLES O= Masculine A=Feminie E= maybe MASCULINE and FEMININE *If you’re not sure, you should look up the word (when in doubt, the dictionary is your friend!!!) *There are some irregulars that break the rules…they must be memorized. Chico, hombro, libro Chica, nota, blusa Estudiante, paciente, cliente *suéter, ratón, jersey *el agua, el mapa, el problema, el artista, el aguila We can learn 3 important pieces of information from an ADJECTIVE: Examples: DEFINITION GENDER (male, female) NUMBER (singular, plural) amarillo yellow male singular THE GENDER AND THE NUMBER OF AN ADJECTIVE WILL ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS CHANGE!!! ADJECTIVES… 4 forms of an ADJECTIVE… Masculine, singular Feminine, singular Masculine, plural Feminine, plural GENDER / NUMBER ***If an ADJECTIVE ends with an “o”, you can change it to “a” to make it FEMININE (and vice versa to make it masculine). ***If an ADJECTIVE ends with a vowel, add “s” to make it plural. 4 forms of an ADJ