📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 17 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 4 · The date and the weather
Las estaciones — the seasons
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 17 of 30: Four seasons: la primavera (spring), el verano (summer), el otoño (fall), el invierno (winter). On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la primavera
the spring
lah pree-mah-BEH-rah
el verano
the summer
ehl beh-RAH-noh
el otoño
the fall
ehl oh-TOH-nyoh
el invierno
the winter
ehl een-BYEHR-noh
la estación
the season
lah ehs-tah-SYOHN
en verano
in summer
ehn beh-RAH-noh
en invierno
in winter
ehn een-BYEHR-noh
el mes
the month
ehl MEHS
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
Four seasons: la primavera (spring), el verano (summer), el otoño (fall), el invierno (winter). "In" is en for all four: en verano, en invierno — no exceptions to learn.
Y también · And also
Match each season to its months aloud: En invierno hay diciembre, enero y febrero. And remember the map: south of the equator, in Buenos Aires or Santiago, the seasons run the other way round.
Ojo · Watch out
el otoño needs its ñ: oh-TOH-nyoh. And a season takes plain en, with no article: en verano, never en el verano, for saying when.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la primavera.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 17 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
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.