todo
/ˈtoðo/
Translation
all, everything, whole
Examples
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Everyone knows what happened.
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I ate it all, it was very good.
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She worked the whole night without a break.
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I have been working non-stop all day.
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All the neighbours came to the building meeting.
Todo functions as both a determiner (before a noun: "todo el día" - the whole day) and a pronoun (standing alone: "lo sé todo" - I know everything). It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: todo, toda, todos, todas.
The phrase "todo el mundo" (literally "all the world") means "everyone" and takes a singular verb in Spanish, just as its English equivalent does. A frequent learner error is writing "todos el mundo," conflating the plural pronoun with this fixed expression.
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