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Hola

Tengo otra pregunta ;-))

¿En español algunas palabras de género femenino acaban en -a y llevan los artículos el y un, como las del género masculino, sí? Por ej.

un/el habla
un/el alma
un/el acta

pero en plural siempre llevan el artículo en femenino, ¿Por qué y tenéis una lista de todas las palabras efectuadas?

Quiero descubrir el polvorín de mi pregunta arriba ^^^^^^

Looking back on my past 15 years living in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Chile I realize that it took me about 5 years to learn Spanish. What most people would call fluent Spanish. At first it was a constant "dolor de cabeza". Getting married to a native in Guatemala, buying house and property using Spanish speaking abogados, all this honed my Spanish skills. I studied in an intensive school situation for 6 months in Costa Rica after having teken 2 Spanish courses in US high school.
Por and Para were hard for me to master. Took a lot of listening to radio and TV and learning to be a parrot.
The subjunctive mood which is almost now non existent in English is another thing that must be learned like a parrot. Last summer I went to a school in Spain just to strengthen my subjunctivo.
My first time to speak Spanish was on an engineering job up in Vigo, Spain. We were building an oil rig in a Spanish shipyard. None of the good old boys in my company spoke any Spanish. I was only a few years out of high school and still remembered my vocabulary. So within a week, I was the official translator. After a few days I decided not to use any verb conjugation. In this manner I was able to speak much more rapidly. It was many years later that I finally learned verb conjugation and had a hard time breaking my old habit. Infinitives can say a lot. Infinitives coupled with a bit of sign language function as conjugation.
The other thing with Spanish are the articles El and La. I noticed that you used El Problema , which is the error of many Spanish learners. In my website I have a section on El and La. Feel free to com municate with me. I still cannot publish URLs but I think the administrator can give out my website address.
Good luck with the Spanish. The big thing is developing confidence, and that comes with jumpin in with both feet and starting to speak Spanish. No puede nadar con un pie en la orilla.
tomás eduardo pavlovich

Hello and welcome to the forum........question is do you have an answer to my query?

Also your bit on el problema....who was that aimed at as there are multiple folks posting on this thread ;-)

El problema con el idioma español es la incertidumbre del sistema de artículos

I have made up a list of exceptions taken from my experiences over the years.

If you send me an email will gladly share my Spanish language self taught lessons. Hopefully soon I can publish the address of my site which I constantly refer to.
Thanks for your interest, Tomás eduardo Pavlovich

Here are some of the exceptions I have found in everyday communication.

If you are a gambler, this page gives the odds if you guess el or la


I hope this info arrives intact. Quite complicated for me.

ur friend tomás eduardo pavlovich

My source for article information.



and one of the best books I ever owned



If you are a gambler Bull gives you the odds.

tomás eduardo

Muchas gracias por la información pero en este caso las palabras son raro por ej.:

En español algunas palabras de género femenino acaban en -a y llevan los artículos el y un, como las del género masculino, sí? Por ej.

un/el habla
un/el alma
un/el acta

pero en plural siempre llevan el artículo en femenino, ¿Por qué (en el contexto de estas excepciones solamente) y tenéis una lista de todas las palabras efectuadas?

A lot of Spanish words that start with, and have the accent on the first a use el instead of la. Might have something to do with how it sounds, la alma sounds awful!!