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34: This thing, that thing // Do all Spanish nouns have a gender?

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Esta, esto, este… esa, eso, and ese… let's learn all the words for "this" and "that". We'll also talk about why some pronouns don't have a grammatical gender, even though all nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/34

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0:00.0

This thing that day, let's do a lot more things with Spanish nouns.

0:07.0

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:13.0

I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

0:18.0

Today we're going to explore some really interesting things about the

0:22.1

gender of Spanish nouns. Do all nouns have a gender? And what about when the ideas that you're

0:28.1

talking about are vague and abstract? Do those ideas have a gender as well? But let's start by

0:35.2

learning some fun, easy vocabulary, and we'll begin with the handiest noun

0:40.2

in the whole Spanish language, the word COSA, which means thing.

0:46.1

You can use this noun to represent pretty much anything you want to, just like the word

0:50.8

thing in English.

0:53.0

But note that this is a feminine noun, so it takes

0:56.1

feminine articles and pronouns. And that's true no matter what the thing is that you're talking about.

1:01.6

So any time you say the thing in Spanish, you use la coza, because the thing that you're talking

1:08.3

about is temporarily treated as feminine.

1:15.4

You can also say las cosas, which means the things.

1:19.6

Make sure to pronounce the final S as a hard S.

1:26.5

S, the z sound that we use at the ends of words in English doesn't exist in Spanish.

1:29.7

So how would you say a thing?

1:33.3

That would be,

1:34.8

Una Cosa.

1:37.5

How would you say,

1:40.2

the things are at her house? Las Cosa is in their house. Let's also

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