It's Friday, so let's practice all do loke we learned this week.

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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we have a big quiz to practice everything we've been learning on the podcast recently.

But first, let's take a few minutes to learn some idiomatic uses of our existing vocabulary.

First of all, let's revisit the word todo, which means everything or all.

Check out this sentence in English.

I have all of it.

How would you translate that in Spanish?

Remember that it doesn't really have a proper equivalent in Spanish.

Well, to make this work, we'll reword it to look like this.

I have it all.

If you think about it, that sentence is a little weird,

because it's like there are two direct objects,

it and all. Neither one is an adjective. They both function as the direct object in the

sentence. Well, in Spanish, you'll use both of these as well.

So here it's kind of redundant because we have two words that function as the object of the sentence,

lo, meaning it as a direct object before the verb, and also to dodo after the verb.

This is just idiomatic. It's how people speak in real life.

In English, it would make sense grammatically simply to say, I have all. But for some

reason, we don't talk like that. So anytime you would say, I have it all, or I did it all,

or anything like that in English, you'll use both lo and

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