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Spanish: When writing a sentence, does “la” or “los” or “el” go in the middle of a sentence?

Example: La mama (does ‘la’ go in the middle of a sentence with mama?)

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Ashlo offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 27 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (50 minutes after post)

El hombre esta mirando a la mama, yeah, you can put it in the middle, as long as it literally means ‘ the blank(s)’

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (2 hours, 56 minutes after post)

yes the article stays with the noun

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (6 hours, 31 minutes after post)

ok so, la mama would mean the mama? in spaish movies for example i don’t always hear them say la or el or los in the middle of a sentence, and in the movie PAN’S LABYRINTH, (if i’m not mistaken) Pan says only ‘mama.’ Why is this? So just to make sure, LOS, EL, and LA all mean THE?

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (7 hours, 42 minutes after post)

Pretty much, yeah.

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (9 hours, 9 minutes after post)

right on. gracias! :)

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 2 weeks ago (10 hours, 3 minutes after post)

yeah like in english you dont always need the definate article, which is ‘the’ in english, so you wouldnt address your mother as the mother, you’d just address her as mum, which is actually the vocative but thats a completely different thing that you dont need to worry about.

youll also need to learn uno, una etc. which is the indefinate article, the counterpart of the english ‘a or an’.

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