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Noun meaning

Noun meaning

Noun meaning

Noun meaning

Noun meaning is a flashcard drill for noun vocabulary. A card shows a noun or its translation; you recall the other side, turn the card, and say whether you knew it.

How a card works

  1. Choose a direction at the top of the screen:
  2. Spanish → your language — you see the noun with its article (la casa) and recall the translation. This is recognition, the easier direction.
  3. Your language → Spanish — you see the translation and recall the noun, with its article. This is recall, the harder direction.
  4. Mixed (⇄) — each card picks a direction at random. Use this once both directions feel comfortable.
  5. Tap the card to turn it.
  6. Grade yourself. On iPhone and iPad, swipe the card right if you knew it and left if you didn't. On the Mac, and on iPhone and iPad with VoiceOver on, use the Wrong and Correct buttons instead. The next card follows automatically.

A masculine/feminine pair gives two cards: el tío and la tía are asked separately. So does a noun whose meaning changes with the article (el capital, la capital). Where a noun has something unusual about it, such as a gender trap or a noun used only in the plural, a short note appears on the answer side.

Listening and audio. The speaker button in the corner of the card reads aloud the side you are looking at. If your device has a Spanish voice, a Listen switch appears at the top: with it on, the Spanish side of a card is spoken instead of shown. Tap the large speaker to hear it again, then turn the card to see the answer and the spelling. Listen is hidden in the your language → Spanish direction. For better audio, see Setting up Spanish speech.

The session

  • The cards are drawn at random from your selection. A session asks the number of questions set in Questions per session (Settings → Study).
  • A card you mark wrong stays in the deck and can come back later in the same session.
  • The Incorrect answers switch at the top limits the session to nouns you have got wrong before. When a noun comes right, it drops out. If you have no wrong answers yet, the app says so and turns the switch off.
  • The line above the card shows your score so far ("7 out of 9 correct").
  • After seven correct answers in a row, the app offers to end the session: choose Stop — session complete or Continue.
  • At the end, Session complete appears. Tap New session to start another.

Every answer is recorded against the noun and counts towards your progress.