Spanish Plural

Spanish Plural

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This lesson will help you understand the plural in Spanish, and enables you to use real examples shown below. If you have any question let us know by clicking on the “Contact us” button, this lesson is very important since it covers a very widely used element in Spanish which is the plural.

The plural in Spanish

In general, to form the plural of nouns and adjectives in Spanish we add -s to words ending in a vowel and -es to words ending in a consonant, the way of making the Spanish plural is close to the one of doing it in English: el libro (the book) = los libros (the books) el profesor (the professor) = los profesores (professors).

In General if a word ends with anything except a z you can add an s or es (if it's ending with a consonant). But exceptions always exist, like the ones below:

Plural in Spanish

When a word is ending in an unstressed vowel add the letter s. like in: la casa - las casas, la picina - las picinas.

When a word is ending in a consonant add the letters es. el señor - los señores, la ciudad - las ciudades.

When a word is ending in s preceded by an unstressed vowel generally the plural stays the same in both singular and plural:

el lunes (Monday) - los lunes (Mondays), la crisis (the crisis), las crisis (the crises).

When a word is ending in z change the ending zes to ces. el pez (fish) - los peces(fish), el juez (the judge) - los jueces (judges), la luz ( the light) - las luces (the lights).

When a word is ending in n in an unstressed syllable add an accent to the appropriate vowel to maintain the correct stress:

el examen (the exam) los exámenes (exams).

When a word is ending with a y the plural will need -es even if the y is a vowel, due to the phonetic nature of the word: el rey (the king) - los reyes (kings).

Don't get confused to see all these exceptions, 95 % of the Spanish words follow the first rule, which is simply: add -s to a word ending in a vowel, and -es to a word ending in a consonant.

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