What are NOUNS of PEOPLE

The people nouns we use them every day. They are part of the first words we hear and learn. But do we really know them? In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to study what are nouns of people, how they are classified and how they are written. Of course, we will see a series of examples clarify the explanation. Keep reading!

Index

1. What are nouns of people: easy definition
2. Nouns of people according to their meaning
3. Nouns of people according to their GENDER
4. The number of the noun of persons: classification and examples
5. How people nouns are formed

Spanish Grammar defines nouns as those names with which they are designated with concretion to people, animals, objects and entities of abstract concepts, such as ideas, emotions, moods, etc.

Person nouns are those that refer to human beings and they manifest different qualities, characteristics and qualifications of the person who is indicated, as for the profession and activity carried out: engineer, painter; for his relationship with other people: brother, friend, brother-in-law; for his age: old, young; by their sex: man, woman; just in case ideology: atheist, religious, among some quick examples.

These nouns are clearly identified because they express personal traits.

The nouns of people sThey are used depending on their meaning and reference to which it is directed or refers. A higher, and within this initial classification, it will be necessary to distinguish between two types of nouns of people according to the meaning: the proper nouns and common nouns.

Common nouns of people

They name people in a group to name their features, but without expressing distinctive features: man, car, suspect. They are also considered as generic or collective nounsives of people, and have a concrete and understandable meaning: children, professors, physiotherapists.

Examples of common people nouns:

• Abbess, lawyer, adolescent, fry
• Bedouin, beret, boxer, kindness
• Singer, boy, filmmaker, chorus
• Dean, athlete, doctor, duo
• Writer, electrician, wife, explorer
• Family, fatigue, philosopher, civil servant
• Gymnast, Governor, Gondolier, Guitarist
• Son, daughter, historian, orphan
• Industrial, computer scientist, ignorance, researcher
• Young judge
• Reader, leader, lunatic
• Teacher, doctor, melancholy, musician
• Swimmer, boy, boyfriend, nape
• Journalist, painter, cousin, teacher
• Secretary, soldier, soloist, father-in-law
• Ticket clerk, scammer, uncle, Tunisian
• Urban planner, city, usufruct
• Lazy, old age, Biscayan, viscount
• Xylograph
• Son-in-law, plasterer, Yugoslav
• Cobbler, czar, darner, left-handed

Nouns of proper persons

Allow identify and individualize a specific human being to differentiate it from another in the same field, such as Luis, Adolfo, María. In the Spanish language these nouns are written with a capital initial letter, and have no linguistic meaning. Nouns of proper persons are also considered surnames, as an individual name that follows the first name: Gutiérrez, Álvarez, Fernández.

Examples of proper nouns:

• Andrés, Angela
• Begoña, Benito
• Carlos, Cristina
• Daniel, Daniela
• Esteban, Enrique
• Fatima, Fernando
• Gabriela, Genaro
• Hernando
• Isidore, Irene
• Juan, Juana
• Luis, Luisa
• Maria, Mariano
• Nicolas, Nieves
• Peter, Mercy
• Simon, Susana
• Teresa, Timothy
• Umberto
• Victor, Violet
• Xenia
• Ylenia
• Zahara

Depending on the sex, the nouns of people can have different genders grouped in masculine, feminine and neuter. There are cases for the formation of the first two in which they are only differentiated by the final inflectional morphemes, for the masculine they are -o, -e, or none, and for the feminine gender -a, such as grandfather-grandmother, son-daughter, single Single. In those of the neutral gender, it is the article that determines the gender of whom it is spoken: the pianist-the pianist, and the adjective that accompanies it.

The nouns of people with masculine gender.

They are nouns or common nouns that name a male human being: man, son, friend.

These go accompanied by male items and they help to determine the gender (the, the, a, ones), and adjectives in accordance with the noun: the good friend never gets angry.

The nouns of people with feminine gender.

The nouns of people of feminine gender are common names that designate a female human being: wife, daughter, friend.

They are accompanied by feminine articles (la, las, una, unas), and contribute to iidentify gender, also agreeing with the adjective: the good friend never gets angry.

We have already seen how meaning and gender determine part of the classification of person nouns. Now we are going to delve into the number of these personal names and how it affects grammatical composition.

• The number of the noun of persons is the grammatical property that informs about how many references are spoken.
• Nouns for people can be singular or plural.
• The singular person nouns are those that indicate a single person, regardless of gender: swimmer, writer, student, novelist.
• In the singular this class of nouns do not have any numeral morpheme, but yes determiners and adjectives that define it in its number.
• The plural names of persons designate and indicate about two or more persons who are spoken of.

For their training they follow the same Gramatical rules than the rest of nouns:

• Yes ends in an unstressed vowel (without accent) or in -e, the plural is added -s: baby- babies.
• If it ends in stressed vowel different from -é, the plural is added -es: Moroccan- Moroccan.
• If it ends in consonant other than -s, to the plural is added -es: bricklayer-bricklayers, driver-drivers, administrator-administrators.

The plural in nouns of people also admits articles and adjectives that determine it.

In Spanish for form the plural of people's names inflectional morphemes are used -s, -es for the masculine, and -as for the feminine.

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