los
Spanish, pronoun/los/
los is spelled L-O-S (3 letters) and appears 15,136 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Los is a Spanish masculine pronoun meaning “plural masculine or neuter pronoun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an accusative of ellos; them. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pronombre personal masculino de objeto directo (acusativo), tercera persona del plural”.
What does los mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
accusative of ellos; them
- 2
accusative of ustedes (when referring to more than one man); you all (formal or (Latin America) informal)
- 3
masculineneuterplural masculine or neuter pronoun
los que no hablan
article
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of el (“the”)
¿Qué hacen los muchachos?
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
article: 1. Artículo determinado masculino plural. El singular es lo.
pronoun: 1. Pronombre personal masculino de objeto directo (acusativo), tercera persona del plural.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of los
- el singular
- las feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce los?
- /los/
- [los]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to los
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is los in Spanish?
los appears 15,136 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).