Today we're going to have a look at the definite articles in Spanish.

Hello, Brenda Romanyalo, your professor of Spanish.

We're going to have a look at the different ways that we are going to say that in Spanish.

And I want to give you a clue because I want you to start thinking about what are the different ways

that we are going to use this definite

article in Spanish. And just to give you a clue, there's four different ways to say that

in Spanish. So in English we have only one way to say that. And in Spanish we're going to have

four different ways to say this. Why do we have four different definite articles in Spanish when you only have one in English?

I give you a few seconds and I want you to tell me why do you think we have four options to say that in Spanish.

Okay, I hope that maybe you started to figuring things out or maybe you had a few guesses there.

Basically we're going to have four different options because we're going to have one

option for masculine, one option for feminine, and then we're going to have one option for

singular masculine and one for of course plural masculine and one for singular feminine and one for

plural feminine. So that's why we have four different ways to say that in Spanish. As you may or may not know, in Spanish we need to agree with everything in a sentence.

So if we have the noun, the noun is going to determine what is the gender that we need to pretty much agree on everything.

So the adjective that describes the noun has to be in the same gender and number and the

definite article as well.

So let's have a look at one example, Gato.

So Gato, I have a question for you, see cat. gato feminine or masculine in this case so you

can see gato ends in all so it's very likely to be masculine right so we have a male

cat in this case gato is going to determine the gender and the number of everything that is around it, everything that will modify this noun.

So if I want to say black cat, I'm going to say Gato Negro.

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