Taking the time to learn new vocabulary in Spanish is extremely important. Our advice is to learn each new word together with its article (“el” if its a masculine noun, “la” if its a feminine one). That way everything else becomes easier!

Next, we share a list of everyday common objects.

*Learn more about the definite and indefinite articles and how to say where things are in Spanish here.

*See our other Vocabulary lists here.

* These nouns are always plural (like glasses and scissors in English) even if we talk about only one item (singular):

** Words that end in -as, -es, -is, -os, and -us with two or more syllable don’t change:

Demonstrative adjectives/pronouns

Demonstrative Adjectives (“este”, “esta”, “estos”, “estas”, “ese”, “esa”, “esos”, “esas”) show or point out a person, place, or thing (their location in respect to the speaker or listener). They generally precede the noun:

Eso, Esos / Esto, Estos

When we want to know what something is we use “eso”, “esto”, “esos” or “estos”. Since we don’t know whether it is masculine or feminine, we use this neuter form:

If we’re describing something without the noun being in the sentence (because it’s something we can’t name since it’s more of an abstract issue or because we simply don’t name it), we use “eso” or “esto” regardless of the masculine or feminine article: