📖LearnModule 10 · Lesson 27 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridgeUnit 6 · El puente hacia C1
La nominalización — primer encuentro
Module 10 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridge), lesson 27 of 30: Written Spanish prefers nouns where spoken Spanish uses verbs. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la nominalización
nominalization
lah noh-mee-nah-lee-sah-SYOHN
el precio subió
the price went up
ehl PREH-syoh soo-BYOH
la subida del precio
the rise in the price
lah soo-BEE-dah dehl PREH-syoh
el obrero
the manual worker
ehl oh-BREH-roh
el titular de prensa
the newspaper headline
ehl tee-too-LAR deh PREHN-sah
convertir en sustantivo
to turn into a noun
kohn-behr-TEER ehn soos-tahn-TEE-boh
escrito
written
ehs-KREE-toh
hablado
spoken
ah-BLAH-doh
subir
to go up (rise)
soo-BEER
elevar el tono
to raise the register
eh-leh-BAR ehl TOH-noh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Written Spanish prefers nouns where spoken Spanish uses verbs. El precio subió becomes la subida del precio. Los obreros hicieron huelga becomes la huelga de los obreros.
Y también · And also
It is what makes a headline sound like a headline, and it is the single fastest way to raise the register of a sentence. Subir is the verb (subió, the pretérito); la subida is its noun. Module 1 of the Proficient band takes it apart properly.
Ojo · Watch out
Nominalization turns a verb into a noun: el precio subió becomes la subida del precio. The new noun takes an article and de: la huelga de los obreros.
subir, pretérito — the table
yo subí · tú subiste · él/ella/usted subió · nosotros subimos · ustedes subieron · ellos/ellas subieron
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la nominalización.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out subir, pretérito in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.