El Día de los Muertos: information questions with 'cuántos' and 'cuántas'
Learning outcomes
I can ask and answer questions about El Día de los Muertos using 'cuántos' and 'cuántas'.
I can identify and transcribe words with strong and weak vowels.
El Día de los Muertos: information questions with 'cuántos' and 'cuántas'
Learning outcomes
I can ask and answer questions about El Día de los Muertos using 'cuántos' and 'cuántas'.
I can identify and transcribe words with strong and weak vowels.
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Key learning points
- Weak vowels [i] and [u] merge with strong vowels a, [o], and [e] to make a single syllable,
- The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday. Families set up and decorate special tables called 'altares'.
- The question word cuánto agrees with the gender and number of the noun it refers to: cuánto, cuánta, cuántos, cuántas.
- To describe plural nouns, add -s to adjectives ending in -a, -e and -o. For those ending in -l, -s or -z, we add -es.
Keywords
Strong vowel - the vowels [a], [e], [u] which are pronounced separately when they appear next to each other
Weak vowel - the vowels [i] and [u] which merge with [a], [e] and [o] to make a single syllable
Cuántos - question word meaning 'how many' for masculine plural nouns
Cuántas - question word meaning 'how many' for feminine plural nouns
Common misconception
There is only one way to say 'how many' in Spanish: 'cuánto'.
In Spanish, the question word 'cuánto' agrees with the gender and number of the noun it refers to. There are four forms: cuánto (m), cuánta (f), cuántos (mpl) and cuántas (fpl),
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to learn, learning
to write, writing
to listen, listening
to read, reading
to need, needing
to participate, participating
to prepare, preparing
to have, having
to be, being (permanent traits)
to be, being (temporary states)
to speak, speaking
to tick, mark, ticking, marking
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