Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¡La de imanes que venden aquí! - The amount of magnets that they sell here!

The phrase la de followed by a noun and que is a common exclamatory structure used to emphasize a ridiculously huge quantity. While ¡cuántos imanes venden aquí! is perfectly correct, using la de adds a colorful, conversational punch, translating closer to "The incredible amount of..." It essentially stands in for the phrase la cantidad de.

Since imanes is a masculine plural word, why don't we say los de imanes?

The la in this structure is fixed; it never changes to match the noun. This is because la is actually referring to the hidden feminine singular word cantidad (amount). You can think of the exclamation as a shortened version of la cantidad de imanes que.

Why is there an essential que in the middle of this exclamation?

In the structure la de + noun + que + verb, the que is a relative pronoun connecting the noun (imanes) to the action happening to it (venden). It works exactly like the word "that" in the English translation: "The amount of magnets that they sell here!"

The singular word for magnet is imán. Why is there no written accent mark on imanes?