Los and problemas

Question

Is los used for the word problemas?

Welcome to SpanishDict, Ana. - rac1, Sep 22, 2017

Answer 1

As, Jellonz said: yes. In binary: 1

To elaborate a bit, many Spanish nouns that end in -ma are of Greek origin.

There is a general rule, that nouns derived from Greek (whether they end in -ma or something else) are masculine and therefore require: el, los, un, unos, etc. and masculine forms of adjectives when available.

This is one of the major exceptions to general guideline that nouns that end in -a are usually feminine.

Hola Ken. Good to see you, amigo. :) - rac1, Sep 22, 2017

Gracias Ken, this is good to know. - frike, Sep 22, 2017

jeje, great answer by both you and jello, even though yours might be slightly better, lol, nice to see you ken :) - 006595c6, Sep 22, 2017

Answer 2

Yes.

That's it? lol - rac1, Sep 22, 2017

Lol Ambs. It was late on a Friday night here. I was going to elaborate - but ran out of steam. I vote Ken as best answer :) - jellonz, Sep 22, 2017