Are Spanish nouns also classified countable and uncountable?

Question

For example, we do use indefinite articles in "Come una fresa", "Come una manzana", but we don't use indefinte articles in "Come pizza" or "Come sandía."

Answer 1

Joy,

You are absolutely correct. There are countable nouns (apples, tables) and uncountable nouns (milk, water, etc.) in Spanish.

The Spanish language has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other abstractions. All nouns have a conventional grammatical gender. Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural). However, the division between uncountable and countable nouns is more ambiguous than in English.

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It is also possible to quantify some uncountable nouns by using a measurement followed by "of" (de in Spanish), such as in "a liter of milk" (un litro de leche). Some nouns are countable or uncountable, depending on how they are used.

thanks, I learned something new here. - gohern, Mar 8, 2013

Many thanks! Your explanation helps me a lot! - joygogo, Mar 9, 2013

Answer 2

Well, if you are eating a whole pizza, or a whole watermelon, then it's fine.

Answer 3

I see no reasonable explanation as to why one can't say :

" Está comiendo una pizza o una sandia "

He's eating a pizza or a watermelon. Please correct me someone if I'm wrong.

The sentences I list are from the video 1.4. Since they are not written as "Come una pizza" or "Come una sandía", I just wonder why there isn't an "una" in the sentence? - joygogo, Mar 7, 2013