📖LearnModule 1 · Lesson 10 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, first halfUnit 2 · ¿El o la? First nouns
Los, las, unos, unas — plurals you can hear
Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 10 of 30: The article does the plural work: el becomes los, la becomes las. On this page: 7 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
los librosplural
the books
lohs LEE-brohs
las sillasplural
the chairs
lahs SEE-yahs
unos lápices
some pencils
OO-nohs LAH-pee-sehs
unas mesas
some tables
OO-nahs MEH-sahs
los papelesplural
the papers
lohs pah-PEH-lehs
los amigosplural
the friends
lohs ah-MEE-gohs
son unos lápices
they are pencils
sohn OO-nohs LAH-pee-sehs
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.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La regla · The rule
The article does the plural work: el becomes los, la becomes las; un and una become unos and unas. A noun ending in a vowel adds -s; one ending in a consonant adds -es: papel, papeles.
Y también · And also
Say every s: los libros is lohs LEE-brohs, all the s-sounds spoken. Spanish tells you its plurals out loud — let your ear confirm what you write. A final z turns into c: lápiz, lápices.
Ojo · Watch out
A consonant ending adds -es, not -s: papel becomes papeles. And a final z becomes c in the plural: lápiz, lápices.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with los libros.
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 10 in Module 1 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.