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"ambos" and "los dos"

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How do you use "ambos" and "los dos"? Is there a difference between them?

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updated Sep 23, 2011
posted by boca22

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Ambos is a plural adjective: ambos niños llegaron.

Or

a Plural pronoun.

Ambos fueron.

Los dos is principally used as a noun used exactly like the pronoun ambos.

So really, they are pretty close, but ambos has a secondary use.

updated Sep 23, 2011
posted by Jeremias
I hear "los dos" a lot more than "ambos" here in Guatemala. - --Mariana--, Sep 23, 2011
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My Mexican friends say they use them interchangeably.

updated Sep 23, 2011
posted by Luzbonita