Kilo Lingo

Spanish · Chapter 23 · Lesson 7 · Grammar primer

Lo neuter

Prescribed by the AQA specification.

The short version

Lo turns an adjective into an idea

Put lo in front of a masculine singular adjective and you get an abstract noun: lo bueno is the good thing, lo difícil is the hard part, lo importante is what matters. Lo never agrees, because it points at a concept rather than a thing, so la buena and los buenos are not options here.

Lo bueno es que ya terminamos.

The good thing is that we've finished.

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