Why is el hambre a feminine noun?
Why is el hambre a feminine noun? Th article is el, not la. So, why not use la? Is there a specific reason for this exception?
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There is a reason, but the question comes up several times a week. Please, try a search with the keywords "hambre" and "agua".
Clue: why do you say "an animal" and not "a animal"?
That's what I thought, but why don't all nouns that begin with "a" have el as the article?
Only the ones that begin with a stressed A sound are hard to say.
That happens whenever a word beginning with A or HA is stressed on the first syllable, though the word is feminine. For example:
El águila
El agua
El alma
El hacha
Try to say la hambre or la agua 10 times fast and you'll learn the answer.
hi friend
"Why is el hambre a feminine noun"
firstly, if it is a feminine name, why you write "el" before it.
secondly, because it is such in espanish. language is not a inductive subject. it is feminine because in espanish it is such.
Basically, it sounds and feels really bad to say. Cacophony.
It's to do with how the word sounds rather than how it looks when written.
