mucha hambre or mucho hambre
Okay,el hambre..but do I say mucha hambre or mucho hambre. Also, if it is simply listed as "f" in the dictionary, shouldn't I assume it would have the article "la"? This is going to be hard to teach to 7th gtaders if you tell them it has a masculine article, but it's feminine???? Are you saying there is a special condition that all nouns that begin with "a", or "ha" are considered feminine but take a masculine article? If so, what ending should the adjectives have? Ejemplos: Should it be mucha hambre, and agua oscura or mucho hambre and agua oscuro?
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It's actually quite simple... Try saying "la hambre" and you'll find that it sounds like "lambre" since the 'h' is silent. This is why you would say "el hambre". You would say "Tengo mucho hambre" to say "I am very hungry" because if not, it sounds like "Tengo muchambre". Just like when you say the singular form of water, you say "el agua" as opposed to saying "la agua"; however, you would say "las aguas" because it is a feminine noun. So, you would say "el agua oscura".
Hi, welcome to the forum
sorry, meencanta, this answer is not correct
If a word is listed as f,it is feminine.
The article la is not used with words starting with a or ha to avoid cacaphony.
However, if you say:
Mucha hambre, the stress is on the first sillable of mucha, so there is no a -a sound.
Mucha hambre, mucha agua, el agua oscura,
MeEncanta is pretty much on target, but I have to disagree somewhat. You would say "Tengo mucha hambre." The singular articles (el/la un/una) are all that change.
The rule, as I understand it, is: if a feminine noun begins with a stressed a or ha the singular article changes to "el" or "un". Other adjectives do not change, even though the sounds do tend to blur ("mucha agua" sounds close to "muchagua").
