ABSTRACT
Nouns are naming words. Sometimes the same word can be a noun or a verb. In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine. Feminine words are usually indicated by nf in the dictionary and masculine words by nm. Abstract and general nouns can be made by using the indeterminate form lo and the masculine form of the adjective. The word a is a determiner. It is also called the indefinite article because it refers to any one item and not a specific one, e.g. a bottle of red wine, not the bottle that one have chosen specifically. It is not always possible to tell whether a word is masculine or feminine in Spanish. It is helpful to learn nouns along with their word for the. There are also some other ways of working out if a word is masculine of feminine. Remember, determiners are words which come before a noun and say 'which' one it is.
