Challenge: Masculine nouns ending in "ma"

Question

I recently learned that Spanish nouns that end in "ma" are often Greek in origin and often masculine.

No sooner had a learned this information that I was using it.

Now, let's have fun with it.

Format:

Write the previously identified Spanish noun ending in "ma" with its article.
Give the English translation.
Use it in a sentence in Spanish Give the English translation of the sentence.
Pose another Spanish noun, ending with "ma" without its article.

Post a picture illustrating the first noun.

Example:

Spanish noun: El drama

English translation: The drama

Used in a Spanish sentence: El drama es fundamental a las relaciones humanas.

English translation: Drama is fundamental to human relations.

Challenge noun: sistema

p.s. If you cannot think of any more challenge nouns, look here.

Excellent game...awesome photo! - --Mariana--, Sep 12, 2011

In the above Used in a Spanish sentence: relaciones are in a femenine tense so you would say LAS relaciones. - laurabello87, Sep 12, 2011

excelent game, who is moderating though? please find somebody to look at the sentences, maybe Marianne? jeje, she will kill me, but I am sure she will be more than willing, plese send her a note - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Okay. - JoyceM, Sep 13, 2011

Yes, I'm happy to moderate for you, Joyce. - --Mariana--, Sep 14, 2011

Great! Because one can't leave the children playing alone too long without them getting into trouble! - JoyceM, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 1

Spanish noun: El crucigrama

English translation: Crossword puzzle

Spanish sentence: Los crucigramas son una buena manera de aprender un idioma nuevo.

English translation: Crossword puzzles are a good way to learn a new language.

Challenge noun: El clima

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perfecto, good job:) - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 2

Spanish noun: El idioma

English translation: language

Used in a Spanish sentence: No hablamos el mismo idioma.

English translation: We don't speak the same language.

Challenge noun: trauma

perfecto, good job:) - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

I really love that picture. - rabbitwho, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 3

Spanish noun: El poema

English translation: The poem

Used in a Spanish sentence: El poema, The Wasteland, por T.S. Elliot, es considerada el poema más importante en literatura inglés del Siglo XX.

English translation: The poem, The Wasteland, by T.S. Elliot, is considered the most important poem in 20th Century English literature.

Challenge noun: crucigrama

consideraDO , inglesA - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 4

Spanish noun: El Fantasma

English translation: Ghost

Used in a Spanish sentence: La niña dijo que no podría olvidar el fantasma que había visto en la escalera.

English translation: The girl said she wouldn't be able to forget the ghost she had seen on the stairs.

Challenge noun: el poema

perfecto, good job:) - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 5

Spanish noun: el sistema

English noun: the system

Used in a Spanish sentence:

El sistema solar está lleno de planetas, cometas y muchos objetos interesantes.

English translation:

The solar system is full of planets, comets and many interesting things.

Challenge noun: idioma

Cometa is another masculine word of Greek origin. - pesta, Sep 12, 2011

perfecto, good job:) - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 6

Spanish noun: El mapa

English translation: Map

Spanish sentence: He estudiado este mapa cien veces pero aún no puedo entenderlo.

English translation: I have studied this map a hundred times but I still can't understand it.

Challenge noun: panorama

Answer 7

Spanish noun: el carisma

English translation: charisma

Spanish sentence: Se dice que el Presidente John F. Kennedy tenia mucho carisma.

English translation: They say that President John F. Kennedy had a lot of charisma.

Challenge noun: pijama

Pijama is a femenine word - laurabello87, Sep 12, 2011

Laurabello, you must be wrong. Look: http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pijama - pesta, Sep 12, 2011

And the R. A. E. says it's masculine, too. - pesta, Sep 12, 2011

See, it's good that we are practicing this. Now we will never forget! - JoyceM, Sep 13, 2011

se dice - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 8

Spanish noun: El clima

English translation: the climate

Spanish sentence: El clima aquí en Gerona no es tan malo, pero ahora hace mucho calor.

English translation: The climate here in Girona isn't too bad, but now the weather is really hot.

Challenge noun: El carisma

perfecto, good job:) - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 9

El Problema masciline noun.

El problema es que palabra usar correctamente

The problem is, is the word used correctly.

Challenge word: el fantsma.

Changed from "cubrecama"

cubRecama ... but it is masculine because it's a compound word, not because of Greek origin. "Cama" is a feminine word, after all. - gintar77, Sep 11, 2011

Interestingly enough "sobrecama" is a feminine word. - gintar77, Sep 11, 2011

Sorry, but the word was not "el problema," but "trauma." If you go in order, you'll see. - JoyceM, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 10

Spanish noun: El Tema

English translation: theme, topic, subject

Spanish sentence: El tema que estabamos discutiendo en la cena ayer fue el existencialismo.

English translation: The subject we were discussing at dinner yesterday was existentialism.

Challenge noun: el mapa

The given word has to end in "ma". It's all Greek to me of course :D - rabbitwho, Sep 14, 2011

Hi, Pesta. "El tema que estabamos discutiendo ..." - --Mariana--, Sep 14, 2011

¡Gracias, Mariana! - pesta, Sep 14, 2011

@Rabbit - you're right. It's still a greek word that ends as if it were feminine, and at least it 'starts' with ma. jeje :) - pesta, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 11

Spanish noun: el programa

English translation: The program.

Spanish sentence: En el futuro todo el mundo necesitará entender como usar los programas informáticos.

English translation: In the future everyone will need to understand how to use computer programs.

Challenge noun: El Tema

:-) Although I probably would have said "los programas de informático" I think yours is correct also. - --Mariana--, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 12

Spanish noun: el diagrama

English translation: the diagram

Spanish sentence: Este diagrama "pajarita" explica las modas mitigar los riesgos varios de un projecto.

English translation: This "bowtie" diagram explains ways to mitigate the various risks of a project.

Challenge noun: programa

I'd say ".....las maneras de mitigar los varios riesgos de un proYecto." - --Mariana--, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 13

Spanish noun: el pijama

English translation: pajamas

Spanish sentence: Mi pijama tiene un patrón de conejitos saltando cosido en él.

English translation: My pajamas has a pattern of hopping bunnies sewn into it.

Challenge noun: diagrama

Even though you can say "patrón" for a sewing pattern, I'd probably use "un debujo." - --Mariana--, Sep 14, 2011