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where we use lo

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updated Aug 3, 2012
posted by natarajan

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

Lo is one of those words that doesn't always have a clear definition — and it can function in at least three different ways, as a subject pronoun, object pronoun or definite article. When you run across the word in a sentence and don't know what it means, you often need to figure out first how it is being used.

Here are the ways that lo can be used:

  • As a masculine direct-object pronoun.

  • As a neuter definite article.

  • As a neuter direct-object pronoun.

  • With ser and estar to refer to a preceding noun or adjective.

  • As part of lo que or lo cual.

  • As part of lo de.

  • In various phrases.

updated Aug 3, 2012
posted by --Mariana--
very broad, and very good :) - viejito, Aug 3, 2012