SPANISH GRAMMAR

Number

Nouns ending in a vowel form the plural by adding -s: caballo - caballos, pantalla - pantallas, clase - clases.
Nouns ending in consonants, -y, and stressed vowels -í, -ú, sometimes also -á form a plural by adding -es: buey - bueyes, poder - poderes, jabalí - jabalíes.
The final -z becomes -ces: pez - peces, nuez - nueces, vez - veces, voz - voces.
The final -c changes into -ques, and -g changes into -gues: zigzag - zigzagues.

In the plural, polysyllable nouns ending in -s and unstressed on the last syllable do not change: crisis - crisis, but: mes - meses, país - países.
The plural stressed syllable does not change, so for the words -s and -n the graphic accent may change according to the spelling rules ( the stress ) : jardín - jardines, origen - orígenes, inglés - ingleses.
If a vowel has a graphic accent before -s, -n, the accent disappears in plural (inglés - ingleses, francés - franceses). A particularly large group of such nouns are nouns ending in -ón: conversación - conversaciones, camarón - camarones, sillón - sillones.
The situation is sometimes quite complicated for compound nouns, but most often they follow the same rules as non-compound nouns.

Plural of nouns - exercises.

Put a noun with an article in plural.

la casa las casas
el hombre
la hermana
la nación
el inglés
la mano
el buque
el cantador
la pez
la vez
el zigzag
el cinturón
el francés
el mes

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