Ch 25 · Lesson 9Spanish · Chapter 25 · Lesson 9 · Grammar primer
Lo neuter
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The short version
turns an adjective into an idea
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Put in front of a masculine singular adjective and you get an abstract noun: is the good thing, is the hard part, is what matters. never agrees, because it points at a concept rather than a thing, so and are not options here.
+ adjective + measures how much
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: you have no idea how hard it was. never changes, but here the adjective agrees with what it describes: . An adverb works too, and never agrees: .
is what; a question takes
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means what in the sense of the thing that: , . After a comma, or sums up the clause before it, like which. A direct question takes instead: Âż ?
: the business about
Âż Pedro?
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plus a name, a noun or an infinitive points at an affair both speakers know about, without spelling it out: Âż Pedro?, . It is , very common and vague on purpose.
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