Spanish Beginner Nouns Vocabulary Exercise 5

Mixed vocabulary — body, place and study — la boca (mouth), la nariz (nose), el agua (water — see below!), la pluma (pen/feather), el ruido (noise), el banco (bank or bench), el edificio (building), el río (river), el/la estudiante, la escuela (school).

The agua trick — feminine with el — agua is feminine but takes el in the singular to avoid the awkward la agua sound clash: el agua fría — notice fría stays feminine. In the plural: las aguas. The same rule applies to any feminine noun starting with a stressed a-: el aula (classroom), el águila (eagle).

Scene-setting sentences — El estudiante hace mucho ruido en la escuela (The student makes a lot of noise at school). Hay un banco junto al río (There's a bench by the river). La pluma cayó al agua (The pen fell into the water). El edificio nuevo está cerca de la boca del metro (The new building is near the metro entrance).