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LearnCraft Spanish

198: Ello vs Eso

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What does "ello" mean in Spanish? Why don't we just use "eso"? Let's explore this strange pronoun and how it helps make Spanish so different from English.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/198

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0:00.0

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:09.0

I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

0:15.0

Today we're going to explore some interesting things about pronouns that tend to be very tricky for English speakers because they don't

0:21.9

work the same way that English works. And we'll start with something about the word

0:26.5

todo. So far, we've used todo and todos in a few different ways. Sometimes,

0:34.4

todos simply means everyone, as in everyone is here, or

0:39.4

TOTOS est an Aki.

0:42.1

And sometimes, TOTO, without the S, simply means everything, as in everything is here, or

0:48.5

Toto esthita'i.

0:51.4

Other times, Toto and todos can mean all.

0:56.4

In those cases, the pronoun has to match the thing it's describing,

1:01.3

and then we also typically put an article between to dodo and the noun.

1:06.2

For example, all the houses is

1:09.0

Tadas las Casas, and all the light is Tadas las Casas and all the light is

1:13.1

Toda la Luce. But what about the word

1:17.4

every in English? For example,

1:21.0

every table needs a chair.

1:24.3

There are actually three ways to translate

1:26.8

every table into Spanish.

1:30.1

First of all, we can rephrase it as all the tables, or

1:34.0

All Las Mesas.

1:36.5

But in this case, we're trying to single out each individual table.

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