Hay muchas palabras feminina que empieza y termina con una 'a' PERO las usan el articulo 'el', no 'la' como pensarias - como 'EL AguA'. Entiendes? 'Agua' es feminina y la debería usar el articulo 'la' pero no hace. La usando 'el'. Pero cuando esta en una frasa, con un adjectivo, el adjectivo todavia será feminina. En este caso la tiene ambos - una parte masculino y una parte feminina - por ejemplo 'El agua fría'. Interesante, de acuerdo? No se porque pero es como se hace.
Y hay muchas como estas:
There are many feminine words in spanish that start and end with an 'a' but still use the article 'el' instead of 'la' like you would think - like the word for water 'EL AguA'. Does that makes sense? 'Agua' is a feminine word and should use 'la' but it doesn't. It uses 'el'. But when it's in a sentence with an adjective, the adjective is still feminine. In this case, it uses both - a masculine part & a feminine part - for example 'El agua fría'. Interesting, right? I don't know why but that's how it's done.
And there are lots of examples like this:
el agua - the water
el águila - the eagle
el ala - the wing
el artista - the artist
el alma - the soul
el ancla - the anchor
Alguien sabe una otra? Anyone know another one?
There are a lot of others, but it's only if the feminine noun begins with the "a" sound and the first syllable is emphasized, like in "el área". The word can also begin with an "h" since the Spanish "h" is silent, like "el hacha", but the plural is "las hachas". It's like in English when we change the indefinite article from "a" as in "a book" to "an" when the word starts with a vowel. It just sounds better :)
ReplyDeleteAlso in Spanish we change the word "y" ("and") to "e" if it comes before a word that starts with the "i" sound, like "Estudio inglés e historia" or "Anoche salí con Enrique e Ysabel". Again, it just sounds better. We also change the "o" ("or") to "u" when it comes before a word that starts with the "o" sound, like "siete u ocho" or "¿Qué prefieres, cerveza u horchata?" Unlike English, Spanish is really good about following pronunciation, spelling, and grammatical rules.