Questions & Answers about El amor los une.
Why does this sentence use los instead of the reciprocal pronoun se?
Because love (el amor) is the subject doing the action to them. los is just a regular object pronoun meaning 'them'. If the sentence used the reciprocal se, like in Ellos se unen, it would mean 'They unite each other' or 'They join together'.
Why do we need El before amor? Doesn't that mean 'the love'?
Yes, but in Spanish, when you talk about an abstract concept or general idea as the subject of a sentence (like love, time, or peace), you must use the definite article. So 'Love' translates to El amor.
Why does los come before the verb?
In Spanish, object pronouns like los ('them') are placed directly before the conjugated verb. You can think of the literal word order as 'The love them unites'.
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