Nouns
The Spanish course has over 1,600 nouns. Every noun has its article, its plural (where it has one), a translation and three example sentences. The Nouns hub is where you practise the parts of noun vocabulary that cause the most mistakes: gender, plurals, and the nouns whose form or meaning changes with the article.
Open Self Study → Nouns to reach the hub. It has three sections:
- Theory — Noun grammar: gender rules, the exceptions, the nouns that take both articles, the nouns with one article for both sexes, and plurals. See Noun grammar.
- Study — Reference (Noun reference): browse the full noun catalogue. See Noun reference.
- Practice — Select groups (Select noun groups): choose the kinds of noun to practise. See Select noun groups. Then the drills:
- Meaning (Noun meaning) — flashcards: recall what each noun means. See Noun meaning.
- Pick the correct article — choose el or la for each noun. See Pick the correct article.
- Singular / Plural — form the plural (or the singular) of the selected nouns. See Singular / Plural.
- Alternate gender pairs — give the masculine or feminine form of a noun. See Alternate gender pairs.
- Meaning changes with gender — flashcards for the nouns whose meaning depends on the article (el papa / la papa). See Meaning changes with gender.
- One article for both sexes — sentences with a noun of fixed gender used for a man or a woman: choose the article or adjective. See One article for both sexes.
The line under the hub title shows how many nouns your selection gives you, out of the whole catalogue. The Select groups row shows how many of the 22 groups you have ticked; the count turns red when none are ticked. Touch and hold a drill row for a short explanation of that drill, or use the Help button at the top of the hub.
Which drills follow your selection. Noun meaning, Pick the correct article and Singular / Plural use the nouns in your selected groups, narrowed by your level and the topics you set in Self Study → Select word scope. Alternate gender pairs and One article for both sexes use their own fixed set of nouns and ignore your selection and level. Meaning changes with gender holds the meaning-changers within your level and ignores your noun selection and topics. Noun reference always lists the whole catalogue.
A recommended workflow
- In Select groups, start with Regular and the two predictable-suffix groups, and set your level to A1 in Scheme and level (the chip with the flag). Set Questions per session to 20 in Settings → Study.
- Run Meaning until the core vocabulary feels solid.
- Add Pick the correct article to fix el and la in memory.
- Move on to Singular / Plural once the meanings and articles are secure.
- Leave Alternate gender pairs and Meaning changes with gender until later — both assume you already know the ordinary gender of a noun.