The
"The" in Spanish
el
(article)
el
(used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
el
(with a superlative)
el
(used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
la
(article)
las
(article)
las
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
lo
(article)
los
(article)
los
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.