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where did you get hola buenos dias welcome to standard deviants School Spanish on Tessa Monroe articles and pronouns are the war courses in the Spanish language Pierce I will give you the inside track for using articles and pronouns first will teach you the vocabulary will need to know acid articles in Los Lunas do some tricks you can remember what the noun is masculine or feminine Carlos teenage movie theater Dia models needs hand promotion programa newspaper good problema actress Martinez estudiante are you worried won't remember them all don't be  in Spanish just about everything is a girl or a boy next articles and pronouns as well as the adjective modify the gender next like tables rocks and nose hair clippers are all considered item or feminine usually if it's feminine and if I say usually because you know there are exceptions to every rule for now just remember if the Spanish noun ends in a is feminine and any adjectives you use to modify it could also be feminine and then as well it's a noun ends in o masculine and any addictive the used to modify it should also be masculine and end in o back to elementary school grammar for a minute remember what articles are not that kind of article we're talking about the words a an and the that tell us a little bit about the noun that follows art those are considered adjectives the word that is a definite article it specifies which thing or person you're talking about when you are fertile for your friend to one specific sticky spot on the other hand if you refer to a sticky spot on the floor you're not clean out you can be talking about any sticky spots which if you were speaking about a place in your own home disgusting and unfortunately play The Articles A and N are called indefinite articles in English one definite article the word stuff in Spanish there are four definite articles they are and laugh loss and less which definite articles describe the noun they modify with more detail than the does in English Spanish definite articles tell you what does now they modify is masculine or feminine singular or plural in English that means the car in English that means for cars we're talking about more than one table and say which means the table are a and an in Spanish there are four indefinite articles that again tell a bit more about the noun they modify than their English counterparts hula hula hula is masculine or feminine singular or plural examples for example Recaro means a car drip her to a group of cars but not a specific group of cars use Uno's Uno's carros which means some cars Uno with a singular feminine noun Luna's mispronounce specific group of tables masculine nouns in Spanish usually end in l o n r or S like the words battle calcetines swords for paper car song movie doctor and Tuesday since these don't seem to be inherently now or female you have to look at the ending these masculine ending spell the word loners so when you think masculine Spanish Z or a and Mesa which means City promotion turntable viansa Danza Danza some masculine nouns can be made feminine just by adding the letter A to the end like the words book pool and go Florida book tour first or male I'm so sore the first was female doctor we see this kind of change a lot talking about people especially professions this just in but I have a pneumonic loaded Danza they are telling you the whole story in the Spanish language words like mono and in students and teachers think it's masculine but it's not it's feminine La Mano V1 no more exceptions to come this is Papa Jackson reporting live  now there are some exceptions to these generals life which is masculine it was kind of weird to see him ask him where that end today that's why they call him exceptions one form or feminine like estudiante or cleansing they depend on the article that comes with them to tell the reader whether their masculine or feminine exceptions. cause you problems Lamar tell Tia tell my last day now let's talk about pronouns in case you're zoning on what a pronoun is it's a word like she or it that takes the place of a imagine a world without pronouns we would have to repeat nouns over and over again to get to know the Spanish pronounce intimately you need to know their gender can you let go of me please thanks and you need to know what are singular or plural before we go to tell you about the pronouns you in English you has many uses person I'm talking to or you can be the group of people I'm talking to in other words can be either or plural in English refer to anyone young or old friend or stranger you are quite different in Spanish there are five Spanish pronouns that mean you a lucky for you most Spanish classes only focus on three of them so that's what we're going to do to for you to learn art and the other two are vassals and which are used only in Spain pronounce to refer to a person who is your peer  in other words who means a person whom you know well and is a lot older or higher position you are you my dear to your equal or and has my status I'm your sister you idiot system of Spain and Latin America when you refer to someone who you don't know or don't know very well for someone who work-for-hire position you was probably mother new office who said you would definitely call a new acquaintance instead until you got to know her better if you're ever in doubt about whether to use to or too Stead is said to be sick play some point it's kind of like a breeding mr. and mrs. in English we just sort of do it out of habit because everyone else does when you write out the word lowercase you unless of course it's the first word in the sentence when you free V8 it  he's an uppercase U what is it the beginning of a sentence or not it's just one of those language things go figure when we said go figure we were speaking figuratively if you're addressing a group directly call the moose say this is also used in Spain but like we said it's considered a formal pronoun in Latin Davis's used for any situation calling for a plural you formal or informal in other words if you want to say you all stink you'd say of course the group throw things at you but that's besides the point right now any group regardless of their age or whether you know them or not whose it is is often abbreviated to capital u d s. Again when you how to word use a lowercase U unless it is the first word in the sentence when you abbreviate it he's an uppercase you regardless of where the word is in the sentence those are three pronouns for you that you'll have to know the best and will probably use most often now will tell you a little bit about what's up for us and for sofa what are the plural pronouns for you that are used in Spain use the plan versus when you address a group of men or group of men and women as you use vosotros to address a group of women as you it's a gender thing again to refer to any group Men Women or false but you have to consider and one with a nose it says a litter the gender of the group you referring to the proper form of hoarding the Spanish pronoun for I yo like it's always yo whether you're a woman or a man yo yo soda spanish-speakers International Worldstar sound like this when you use the Spanish pronoun for we if you're a man refer to yourselves as Nosotros Spanish word for he is as it's the third person singular masculine pronoun and is just like the article as except there's an accent over the e what  you know that this ad is the pronoun he ran the Spanish word for she is the end of can you that you're dealing with a feminine word remember to pronounce the Double L like Ally we're not dealing with Ella Fitzgerald here is the third person singular feminine there are two third person plural pronouns in Spanish for a group of both men and women call them a if you're referring to a group of women cause Nas  okay review in Spanish all nouns are considered masculine or feminine if a word ends in loner or head it's probably a masculine word if the what ends in v i o n z or a it's probably a feminine you there are a few exceptions but for the most part all nouns follow those gender guidelines the adjectives and the Articles the modify nouns have to match the noun they modify the definite articles in Spanish or else La Loft and lie for mascot singular feminine singular masculine plural and feminine plural infer masculine singular feminine singular masculine plural and feminine pronouns athletes in Spanish for the word used you know where younger than you or who have a lower status are you for people you don't know well or older than you or have a higher status the plural form of you is David and that works for everyone is is and sting is eya we is either notebook or no filter depending on whether you need the masculine or feminine form finally the two pronouns that mean they are ales and AF is masculine and feminine that's all the time we have today for articles and pronouns that you learned something and we hope you enjoyed yourself as well ASL wiggle

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