Yeah , honestly , I never considered the most text book the most pretty . I don ' t understand that sentiment . But at least with the JB he ' s somewhat informed on other teams . <| sep |> He plays the lull them into a false sense of security so the other guys can clean house strategy . <| sep |> No , I dont like wearing without soles . To me it defeats the purpose of the shoe . Also they fit small in length and taking out the sole doesn ' t help with length . <| sep |> I hate all black unis for every team . That includes eagles falcons jaguars ravens along with the nonsense ones like cardinals niners Bengals . I ' m sure I ' m missing some , everyone was doing it a while back . It was an edgy time . <| sep |> It ' d be more useful to know the grammatical gender of nouns than the articles used with them per se , and that information and whether the noun is singular or plural will be enough to know which article to use . You can certainly find this information in a dictionary like this one , which I highly recommend . For masculine nouns , its part of speech will most often be given as ' nm ' for ' nombre masculino ' ' masculine noun ' libro . When the noun is feminine , you ' ll usually see ' nf ' for ' nombre femenino ' ' feminine nouns ' manzana . Rarely , a word can be used as masculine or feminine . When that ' s the case , you ' ll see ' n amb ' or ' nombre ambos ' ' noun both gendersmar '. Usually , grammatical gender has nothing to do with natural gender malenessfemaleness . But with certain nouns , often those that reflect someone ' s profession , their gender will correspond to the natural gender of the person or people it refers to so think actoractress , comediancomedienne , etc . . When this is the case , it ' ll usually say ' nmf ' for ' nombre masculino o femenino ' ' masculine or feminine noun ' and , when there ' s a difference , give both versions of the word e . g . profesor profesoralibro , actor actriz , presidente presidenta . If such a noun doesn ' t have a different form , it may also be listed as ' n comn ' for ' nombre comn ' ' common noun ' cantante in those cases , even though the noun itself doesn ' t change , any modifiers it has will to agree with its gender the old male singer el cantante viejo the old female singer la cantante vieja . Once you know the gramatical gender and number of a noun , deciding which definite article to use is pretty straightforward masculine , singular el masculine , plural los feminine , singular la feminine , plural lasDefinite articles are used to turn adjectives into nouns . When this is being done , there ' s also a neuter definite article , lo , used to make adjectives into nouns that have a general , indefinite meaning when this is the case , the adjective will always be in its unmarked form , i . e . masculine , singular . Otherwise , they have a more specific meaning and are essentially functioning as pronouns el rojo la roja the red one . los rojos las rojas the red ones . lo rojo that which is red , anything red , red things , etcAlso note that when a noun reflects the natural gender of a group , the masculine form is the unmarked form by convention , meaning that ' s the one you use with groups of mixed gender the boys los chicos the girls las chicas the girls and boys los chicosFinally , when a singular , feminine noun starts with a stressed ' a ' sound , it takes the definite article ' el ' instead of ' la ' but any other modifiers will be feminine this is for pretty much the same reason we use the indefinite article ' a ' before consonant sounds and ' an ' before vowel sounds in English the cold water el agua fra the cold waters las aguas fras the pure soul el alma pura the pure souls las almas puras the intense hunger el hambre intensa the intense hungers las hambres intensasThis is probably much more information than you need , but I know Duolingo can be a bit sketchy with their explanations , so I hope this will be helpful .