Learn Spanish - Spanish Vehicle Vocabulary

[JungleListSoldier]

Why do you have to say el, la, or los before each item? Would it be not grammar correct to say just coche, for example. Also caro is another name for car in Spanish, correct?

[SanDyta7]

@JungleListSoldier Sorry for my english. In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine. Nouns that end in o are usually masculine. Nouns that end in a are usually feminine.But you can´t predict the gender of most nouns because not every noun that ends in o is masculine and not every noun that ends in a is feminine and many nouns end in letters other than o or a. El, la, los, las are called definite articles and they´re your clue as to whether a noun is masc. or fem.

[SanDyta7]

@JungleListSoldier In English, the definite article is the word "the" regardless of whether the noun it introduces is singular or plural. In Spanish, the definite article has 4 forms, depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine, singular or plural. El (masculine, singular), la (feminine, singular), los (masculine, plural), las (feminine, plural). Example: EL gato (the male cat). And yes, car=coche=caRRO (double R) but Coche=Spain, Carro=South America and Mexico

[digitalimpulse]

Thank u again spanishpod101!