Spanish for this week

I thought that this week it might be good to learn some body parts because I'm constantly saying them in English.  :)

arm   ->  el brazo
hand   ->  la mano
finger   ->  el dedo
leg   ->  la pierna
foot   ->  el pie
toe   ->   el dedo del pie  (literally: "the finger of the foot"  del = de + el (of +the))
stomach    ->   el estómago

As a side note, hopefully you've been noticing the "el" and "la" in front of the nouns.  Those are the masculine (el) and feminine (la) articles ("the" in english).  It's always good to memorize those with the word.  The general rule is that nouns which end in "a" are feminine (thus "la pierna") and nouns that end in "o" are masculine (thus "el brazo").  However, this week "la mano" breaks that general rule because it is a feminine noun ending in "o".  I'm not sure how many exceptions like "la mano" there are, but you should always trust the article, not the ending.  Many Spanish words do not end with "o" or "a" (for example, "los pantalones"), so for those it is also important to memorize the article.  (This becomes especially imporant when you start adding modifiers because their endings change to match the noun they modify.  A good example of this is "pantalones cortos" (shorts or literally "short pants").  "Corto" means "short" and the "-s" gets added to match "pantalones" because it is masculine, plural.  If you said "short shirt" in Spanish, it would be "camisa corta" because "corto" drops the "-o" and adds an "-a" to make it feminine, singular.  Can you guess how to translate "short shirts"?  The answer will be below the video.  :)

Here's the pronounciation video:





Answer to the above question:
short shirts   ->  (las) camisas cortas