/las/
Translation
the (feminine plural)
Word origin
Feminine plural definite article and object pronoun, from Latin illas ('those', feminine accusative plural), from the demonstrative ille.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- illas
Examples
huelen .
The flowers in the garden smell very nice.
.
My daughters study in the same classes.
.
Older people deserve a lot of respect.
.
I have to wash the windows this week.
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The city lights fill the whole night.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(30)Lo mismo de siempre
2 min read · Core 1000
Alguien que lo haya visto
3 min read · Core 5000
Cinco mil palabras después
3 min read · Core 5000
Cuando llegué, ya había pasado
3 min read · Core 5000
Cuanto más espero, peor
3 min read · Core 5000
¿El coche o el carro?
3 min read · Core 5000
El correo a la jefa
3 min read · Core 5000
El perro del barrio
3 min read · Core 5000
La aventura de Sofía
3 min read · Core 5000
La fábrica de madera
3 min read · Core 5000
La nota de Rafa
3 min read · Core 5000
La promesa de Lucía
3 min read · Core 5000
Lleva toda la mañana
3 min read · Core 5000
Lo que de verdad importa
3 min read · Core 5000
María lleva una hora esperando
3 min read · Core 5000
Más vale tarde que nunca
3 min read · Core 5000
Media docena de huevos
3 min read · Core 5000
Menudo desastre
3 min read · Core 5000
No creo que sea grave
3 min read · Core 5000
No estoy embarazada
3 min read · Core 5000
Pasen y siéntense
3 min read · Core 5000
Por lo tanto, decidimos
3 min read · Core 5000
Por todas partes
3 min read · Core 5000
Preparando la visita
3 min read · Core 5000
Se me cayó todo
3 min read · Core 5000
Se vende la camioneta
3 min read · Core 5000
Tú y tu hermano
3 min read · Core 5000
Una organización imposible
3 min read · Core 5000
¡Vaya sorpresa!
3 min read · Core 5000
Palabras de cocina
5 min read · Core 1000
Grammar articles
(53)Spanish Adjective Agreement: Endings, Position, and the Shortened Pre-Nominal Set
Spanish Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Spanish Articles: Definite vs Indefinite, Gender, Number, and When English Doesn't Use One
Spanish Causative Verbs: hacer, dejar, mandar + Infinitive (me hizo esperar, le hice arreglar el coche)
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Spanish Cleft Sentences and Emphasis: fue Pedro quien, lo que quiero es
Spanish Text Cohesion and Style: signposting, avoiding repetition, en resumen
Spanish Comparatives: más que, menos que, tan como and the Four Irregulars
Spanish Correlative Comparison: cuanto más... más, cada vez más, el doble
Spanish Compound Tenses: the Future Perfect and Past Anterior (habré hablado, hube hablado)
Spanish Demonstrative Adjectives: este, ese, aquel and the Three-Way Distance Split
The Spanish Diacritic Accent: tú vs tu, sí vs si, qué vs que
Spanish False Friends (Part 2): molestar, recordar, soportar, pretender
The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Spanish Future Tense: ir a + Infinitive and the Inflectional Future
Gustar and Verbs Like It: Why Spanish Says the Coffee Pleases You
Hace, Desde and Desde Hace: Saying How Long and How Long Ago in Spanish
Spanish Imperfect: hablaba, comía, vivía and Only Three Irregulars
Spanish Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
The Spanish Neuter lo (lo bueno, lo que, lo de)
Spanish Negation: no, nunca, nadie and Why Double Negatives Are Correct
Spanish Noun Gender: The -o/-a Rule, the Ending Patterns, and the Exceptions Worth Memorising
Spanish Noun Plurals: Add -s, Add -es, Swap -z for -ces, and the Nouns That Never Change
Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)
Spanish Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns: lo, la, le, se
Spanish Past Participles as Adjectives and Absolute Clauses (una puerta cerrada, terminada la reunión)
The Passive se and the Impersonal se in Spanish (se venden casas, se habla español)
The Passive with ser in Spanish (fue escrito por, fueron construidas)
Spanish Perception Verbs + Infinitive or Gerund: la vi salir, lo oí cantando
The Spanish Present Perfect Subjunctive (haya hablado), with Practice
The Spanish Pluperfect Subjunctive and Conditional Perfect (hubiera hablado, habría hablado)
The Spanish Pluperfect (había hablado)
Por vs Para in Spanish: The Rules, a Chart, and a Practice Quiz
Spanish Possessive Adjectives: mi, tu, su and Why Agreement Trips Beginners
Spanish Compound Prepositions and Tricky Choices: delante de, a pesar de, soñar con
Spanish Prepositions: de, a, en, con, por, para and the Two Contractions
The Spanish Present Progressive: estar + gerundio, and Why It Is Not the English -ing
Preterite vs Imperfect: How to Choose Between the Two Spanish Past Tenses
Spanish Pronoun Order: Indirect Before Direct, and the le-to-se Rule
Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)
Spanish Reciprocal Verbs (se quieren, nos ayudamos - each other)
Spanish Reflexive Verbs: levantarse, llamarse, lavarse and the Pronoun Position
Spanish Proverbs (Refranes): Más vale tarde que nunca, A quien madruga Dios le ayuda
Spanish Vocabulary: Spain vs Latin America (coche vs carro, móvil vs celular, zumo vs jugo)
Advanced Spanish Relative Pronouns: el que, el cual, lo cual and cuyo
The Spanish Accidental se (se me cayó, se me olvidó)
Ser vs Estar: When to Use Each, with a Practice Quiz and Worksheets
Spanish Set Phrases with tener, dar, hacer, echar (tener ganas, echar de menos, hacer falta)
The Spanish Subjunctive in Relative (Adjective) Clauses, with Practice
Spanish Superlatives: El Mejor, El Más, and the -ísimo Ending
Spanish Verbal Periphrases: acabar de, llevar, volver a, seguir + verb
Verbs of Becoming in Spanish: ponerse, hacerse, volverse, convertirse en, llegar a ser
Verbs with Prepositions in Spanish (Régimen Preposicional): the Fixed Verb + Preposition Pairs
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