Spanish Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary Exercise 1

Practise Spanish vocabulary for jobs and professions. Write the Spanish job title for each description. Beginner–elementary level.

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Gender forms of professions — Most occupations change ending: el médico / la médica, el abogado / la abogada, el cocinero / la cocinera. But el/la dentista and el/la estudiante stay the same — only the article changes, making them easy to remember.

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Key irregular: actriz — el actor → la actriz — an irregular feminine form. Similarly el traductor → la traductora. When stating your profession after ser, drop the article: Soy médico, not Soy un médico. The article returns when you add a modifier: Es un abogado brillante.

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Talking about work and study — ¿En qué trabajas? (What do you do?). Quiero ser abogado (I want to be a lawyer). Trabaja como bombero (He works as a firefighter). Estudio para ser médico (I'm studying to become a doctor). El granjero trabaja desde el amanecer (The farmer works from dawn).

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Write the correct Spanish translation for each of the occupations. Choose from the following occupations, altering each one as needed to make each response grammatically correct: dentista, bombero, maestro, médico, actriz, granjero, abogado, cocinero, traductor, estudiante.

1. Mi hermano es (teacher)✓

2. Mis padres son (doctors)✓

3. Esos hombres son (firemen)✓

4. Mi mamá es (actress)✓

5. Mi hermano es (dentist)✓

6. Soy (student)✓

7. Ella es (lawyer)✓

8. El trabaja de (cook)✓

9. Mis primos son (translators)✓

10. Mis abuelos eran (farmers)✓