El dobladillo de mis pantalones se soltó y ahora necesito arreglarlo.

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Breakdown of El dobladillo de mis pantalones se soltó y ahora necesito arreglarlo.

• mi: my
• y: and
• necesitar: to need

Questions & Answers about El dobladillo de mis pantalones se soltó y ahora necesito arreglarlo.

Why is pantalones plural?

In Spanish, pantalones is normally used in the plural, just like trousers in British English or pants in English generally.

So you say:

• mis pantalones = my trousers / my pants
• los pantalones = the trousers / the pants

The singular pantalón usually means one trouser leg in some contexts, or it may appear in fixed expressions, but for the item of clothing as a whole, learners should normally use pantalones.

What exactly is dobladillo?

Dobladillo means hem: the folded and sewn edge at the bottom of a piece of clothing.

In this sentence, el dobladillo de mis pantalones means the hem of my trousers/pants.

It is a very normal word if you are talking about clothing repairs, sewing, or tailoring.

Why does Spanish say el dobladillo de mis pantalones instead of something like mi dobladillo?

Spanish often prefers noun + de + owner when it wants to be precise about what something belongs to.

So:

• el dobladillo de mis pantalones = the hem of my trousers

This sounds natural because the hem is a part of the trousers, not really a separate possession in the same way as mi libro or mi móvil.

You could theoretically understand mi dobladillo, but it would sound incomplete or odd here, because a dobladillo is usually the hem of something, so Spanish normally says what item it belongs to.