Masculine Nouns
Spanish: Cambridge International GCSE, topic 11.3.9
Masculine Nouns
Certain types of nouns are always masculine. Here are the rules:
Days of the week and names of months
- In Spanish the days of the week and names of months are written with lower case letters.
- El viernes.
- Friday.
- El julio.
- July
Numbers
- El seis.
- Six
- El veinte.
- 20
Colours
- When colours are used as nouns they are always in the masculine form.
- El amarillo está de moda.
- Yellow is in fashion.
- El naranaja es el color nacional neerlandés..
- Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands
Rivers, seas and oceans
- All rivers, seas and oceans are masculine.
- El Ganges.
- The Ganges.
- El Pacífico.
- The Pacific.
- El Mar del Norte.
- The North Sea.
The names of languages
- You need to remember that in Spanish the names of languages are not written with a capital letter to start with.
- El inglés.
- English.
- El francés.
- French.
Test yourself on Masculine Nouns
How do you say 'the Atlantic ocean' in Spanish?
How do you say 'The Ganges' in Spanish?