Spanish Gendered Nouns Quiz

Spanish Gendered Nouns

• Spanish nouns have genders (masculine or feminine).
• This affects article choice (el for masculine, la for feminine).
• Some words have different meanings depending on gender.
• For example, el capital (capital, money) vs la capital (capital, city).
• El cólera (cholera) vs la cólera (anger).
• El coma (coma) vs la coma (comma).
• El cometa (comet) vs la cometa (kite).
• El corte (cut) vs la corte (court).
• El cura (priest) vs la cura (cure).
• El frente (front) vs la frente (forehead).
• El orden (order) vs la orden (order, command).
• El Papa, el papá (Pope, Dad) vs la papa (potato).
• El parte (bulletin, communiqué) vs la parte (part).
• El pez (fish) vs la pez (pitch, tar).
• El policía (policeman) vs la policía (police).
• El radio (radius, radium) vs la radio (radio).

Masculine and Feminine Pairs

• Some pairs of words share a similar root but differ in meaning and gender:
• El barco (ship, boat) vs la barca (small boat).
• El cargo (job, responsibility) vs la carga (cargo, load, charge).
• El cuadro (picture, painting) vs la cuadra (city block).
• El cuchillo (knife) vs la cuchilla (razor blade).
• El cuento (story) vs la cuenta (account, bill, bead).
• El mango (handle, mango) vs la manga (sleeve, hose pipe).
• El marco (manner, way) vs la marca (mark, brand).
• El modo (manner) vs la moda (fashion).
• El palo (stick) vs la pala (shovel).
• El peso (weight, unit of money) vs la pesa (weight, in weightlifting).
• El puerto (port) vs la puerta (door, gate).
• El tormento (torment) vs la tormenta (storm).