Spanish Grammar Test: Nouns
Nouns — More Practice with Plurals
Note: This quiz contains 32 questions of which 10 will be selected randomly each time the quiz is taken.
Instructions:Change the following words and phrases from singular to plural.
Question: el lápiz
Answer: los lápices
Useful Grammar
As we learned in the previous secion, nouns which end in a vowel form their plural by adding -s; those which end in a consonant form their plural by adding -es. Other special groups of nouns form their plural as follows:
a) Nouns which end in the letter -z change this z to c in the plural.
| singular | plural |
| lápiz | lápices |
| vez | veces |
b) Nouns which end in -es or -is, without an accent, retain the same form in the plural as in the singular.
| singular | plural |
| el lunes | los lunes |
| la crisis | las crisis |
c) Nouns ending in -ión lose their accent in the plura.
| singular | plural |
| lección | lecciones |
| nación | naciones |
NOTE: Words ending in -ión are generally feminine in form: la lección, la conversación, la corporación, la nación
