Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): No sabes lo buena que sale la tortilla cuando la patata está bien cocida. - You don’t know how good the omelette turns out when the potato is well cooked.

No sabes lo buena que sale la tortilla cuando la patata está bien cocida.

You don’t know how good the omelette turns out when the potato is well cooked.

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Questions & Answers about No sabes lo buena que sale la tortilla cuando la patata está bien cocida.

Why does the sentence start with No sabes...? Is it literally You don’t know...?

Yes, literally it means You don’t know..., but in Spanish this is often used idiomatically for emphasis, especially before lo + adjective + que.

So No sabes lo buena que sale... really means something like:

You have no idea how good ... turns out
You don’t know how good ... is

It is a very natural way in Spanish to sound expressive.

What does lo buena que mean?

This is an exclamative/intensive structure:

lo + adjective + que + verb

It means how + adjective in English.

So:

lo buena que sale la tortilla = how good the tortilla turns out

You will see this pattern a lot:

No sabes lo difícil que es. = You don’t know how difficult it is.
Mira lo grande que está. = Look how big it is.
No sabes lo bien que canta. = You don’t know how well she sings.

If lo is neuter, why is it buena and not bueno?