Adjectives in Spanish I variations in the form of adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. That is, they give us information about the qualities, capacities and characteristics of things.

In Spanish, adjectives have gender and number. That is, they are masculine or feminine and singular or plural. The form of a noun changes according to its gender and number. This means that, in general, the masculine form of an adjective is written differently from the feminine, and the singular form is written differently from the plural. As a result, we can have four forms of the same adjectives, which arise from the conjunction of the two gender forms and the two number forms that they can assume.

Take, for example, the adjective "pecoso" (freckled), referring to someone who has freckles. Depending on the gender and number of the noun to which it is applied, it can take four different forms:

Here it is important to remember that in Spanish nouns and articles can take those same four forms, depending on their gender and their number.

The singular masculine noun "niño" (child, kid or boy) can take, for example, these other forms when we change its gender or number:

While the article can also assume the following four forms depending on the gender and number of the noun to which it is connected (To simplify, we are going to take only the definite article, that is, the equivalent of the English article "the"):

The point of all this is that the gender and number of articles, nouns, and adjectives must always match. 

So, in the cases that we use as examples, we can have the following four combinations:

In future lessons we are going to see different ways in which different adjectives change depending on their gender and number.