todo
/ˈtoðo/
Translation
all, everything, whole
Examples
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Everyone knows what happened.
, riquísimo.
I ate it all, it was absolutely delicious.
toda descanso.
She worked the whole night without a break.
Todo functions as both a determiner (before a noun: "todo el día" - the whole day) and a pronoun (standing alone: "lo sé todo" - I know everything). It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: todo, toda, todos, todas.
The phrase "todo el mundo" (literally "all the world") means "everyone" and takes a singular verb in Spanish, just as its English equivalent does. A frequent learner error is writing "todos el mundo," conflating the plural pronoun with this fixed expression.
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