Nouns (which are a thing, place or person) have a gender in Spanish, they are either masculine or feminine.
When you first come across this concept it is very strange as we don’t have anything like this in English!
If a noun ends in ‘o’ (or the plural form ‘os’) it’s usually masculine.
Eg. Zumo, Castillo, Bocadillos, Zapatos etc.
If a noun ends in ‘a’ (or the plural form ‘as’) it’s usually feminine.
Eg. Falda, Tarta, Tiendas, Toallas etc.
HOWEVER, there are always some exceptions to this rule. For example, ‘día’ ends in ‘a’ so we would expect it to be feminine, however it’s actually masculine.
Another example is ‘mano’, this ends in ‘o’ so we would presume it’s masculine however it is in fact feminine.
Nouns have genders!
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