Rules of Articles - Las reglas de articulos

Rules of Articles in Spanish

• There are mainly 9 rules associated with the use of articles in Spanish 
• The pictures below describe each rule with its examples and exceptions.
• Rule 1 - Noun ending with "o" is masculine
• Rule 2 - Noun ending with 'a' is feminine
• Rule 3- Noun ending with 'ma' is masculine
• Rule 4- Noun ending with sion, cion, tad, dad, tud, umbre are feminine
• Rule 5- Noun ending with 'or' are masculine
• Rule 6- Noun ending with ' age' is masculine
• Rule 7- Some words are always plural
• Rule 8- Some words are always plural even when they are singular
• Rule 9- While changing from singular to plural 'z' changes to 'c'