Look at these nouns and guess the first gender (género) rule:
El bolígrafo (the pen)
El libro (the book)
El cuaderno (the notebook)
La goma (the eraser)
La pizarra (the blackboad)
La libreta (the notebook)
Did you guess the rule?
Most nouns ending in -O are masculine and most nouns ending in -A are feminine.
But I said "most" because there are exceptions. Here are some common ones:
La mano (the hand)
La modelo (the model)
La modelo (the model)
La radio (the radio)
La foto (the photo)
La moto (the motorbike)
Note: "foto" and "moto" are feminine because they are abbreviations for "fotografía" and "motocicleta".
El agua (the water)*
El día (the day)El mapa (the map)
El programa (the program)
El tranvía (the tramway)
El gorila (the gorilla)
El cólera (the cholera)
El cura (the priest)
El planeta (the planet)
El cometa (the comet), but la cometa (the kyte)
El poeta (the poet)
Useful tip: nouns ending in -EMA and are always masculine!
El problema (the problem)
El tema (the theme/topic)
El tema (the theme/topic)
El poema (the poem)
El dilema (the dilemma)
*Note: "agua" is actually a feminine word, but it uses the masculine article "el" in singular. In plural, it is "las aguas". These happens with words that start with -A or -HA, have two syllables and end in -A or -E.
El alma, las almas (the soul)
El aula, las aulas (the classroom)
El hacha, las hachas (the axe)
El hacha, las hachas (the axe)
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