/ˈtoðo/

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Translation

all, everything, whole

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Word origin

From Latin totus ('whole, entire, all').

Origin
Latin
Root
totus
English cognates
total, totally, teetotal

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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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 2: First words for sentences.