todos los animales
/todos los animales/from spelling rules
The English phrase "all the animals" is translated into Spanish as todos los animales.
This phrase refers to every single animal within a particular group or in existence. Within this context, you might use specific words for different types of animals, such as domestic animals like perro (dog) or vaca (cow), wild animals like león (lion), tigre (tiger), elefante (elephant), gorila (gorilla), oso (bear), zorro (fox), lobo (wolf), canguro (kangaroo), tortuga (turtle), jirafa (giraffe), mono (monkey) or camaleón (chameleon). Marine animals like delfín (dolphin) or pez (fish). And others like mariposa (butterfly), abeja (bee), águila (eagle), murciélago (bat) or pingüino (penguin).
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase is composed of todos (all), los (the, masculine plural) and animales (animals, masculine plural).
Which one should you use?
If you want to refer to one single animal in its entirety (the whole animal) rather than a group of animals, you would use the singular form todo el animal.
How do you pronounce it?
/todos los animales/
What mistakes should you avoid?
English speakers often mistakenly use the feminine form todas las animales because animales ends in -es. However, animal is a masculine noun and requires the masculine todos los.
Did you know?
- In Spanish, calling someone an animal can be a way to praise their incredible physical strength or endurance.
- The word animal is used as a slang insult to describe a person who is crude or lacks basic manners.
- The word animal shares the same Latin root as the English word 'animate', referring to things that possess a 'breath' or 'soul'.
Examples in context
- Si no hubiera sol, todos los animales estarían muertos.If there was no sun, all the animals would be dead.This sentence shows how to use todos los animales in a conditional statement about the sun.Tatoeba #1859853 by Shishir, translation #1498018 by nevergetup
- No todos los animales son fuertes.Not all the animals are strong.This sentence demonstrates how to negate the phrase using todos los animales.Tatoeba #1941411 by alexmarcelo, translation #10018476 by espamatics
- Todos los animales del zoológico están durmiendo.All the animals in the zoo are sleeping.
Example conversation
Daniel and María are watching a nature documentary on TV.
- Daniel¿Viste que todos los animales del bosque migraron?Did you see that all the animals in the forest migrated?
- MaríaSí, es impresionante lo que hace la naturaleza.Yes, what nature does is impressive.
- DanielEs verdad, María, es un fenómeno increíble.It's true, María, it is an incredible phenomenon.
- MaríaMe encanta aprender sobre ellos.I love learning about them.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
