What does the spanish word los mean?

Answer 1

Los is the masculine, informal way to say "the". It is also plural, therefore you cannot say something like los boligrafo, because "los" is plural and "boligrafo" is singular (meaning "pen"). You could say, however, los boligrafos, which means "the pens". You also cannot say los plumasbecause los is masculine and plumas is feminine (it also means pen but really refers to a fancy calligraphy pen). Keep in mind that los means "the" not "a", so if you are refering to a pen instead of a specific pen, you would use un over los.

Answer 2

Los is the plural masculine form of the definite article "the." It can also be a plural masculine direct object (taking the place of a noun). For example:

• Los chicos comen la torta.

Would translate to:

• The boys eat the cake.

Where los translates to "the." If it were just one boy eating the cake, we would use the definite article el, because boy is a singular masculine noun. Similarly, if we were referring to a group of girls rather than boys, we would say:

• Las chicas comen la torta.

Which means

• The girls eat the cake.

Again, the definite article las translates to "the," with a spelling change to acknowledge the difference in gender (in this case, feminine). For a single girl, we would use the definite article la.