La villa: The town. La nación[21]: The nation.
La ciudad: The city or large town. La honradez: Honesty.
The other terminations are masculine.
There are many exceptions to the above rule, principally in nouns ending in E.[22]
[Footnote 21: English words ending in "tion" end in ción in Spanish.
(Note the accent.)]
[Footnote 22: Appendix I—for reference only at this stage.]
=Formation of the Plural of Nouns=.
Nouns ending in a vowel which is not stressed and also nouns ending in E bearing the stress, add =S= to form the plural.
All others add =Es=.
EXCEPTIONS—
1. Nouns ending in Z in the sing. change it into =Ces=. 2. Nouns ending in S do not change unless the last syllable is stressed.