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Los lavamos con agua caliente.

Los lavamos con agua caliente.
We wash them with hot water.
From Lesson 56:Direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Los lavamos con agua caliente.

Why is los at the very beginning of the sentence?
In Spanish, direct object pronouns like los (meaning "them") usually go right before the conjugated verb. So instead of saying "we wash them" like in English, you say los lavamos (literally: "them we wash").
How do I know los means "them" here and not "the"?
While los is the masculine plural word for "the" (as in los gatos), here it comes directly before a verb (lavamos) instead of a noun. When lo, la, los, or las sit right before a verb, they act as pronouns meaning "it" or "them".
Where is the word for "we" in this sentence?
It is built right into the verb! The -amos ending on lavamos tells us that "we" are doing the washing. You could say Nosotros los lavamos, but Spanish speakers usually drop the subject pronoun because the verb ending already makes it clear.
Why does caliente come after agua instead of before it?
In English, descriptive adjectives come before the noun (hot water). In Spanish, they usually come after the noun they describe. So, it becomes agua caliente (literally "water hot").
Agua is a feminine noun. Shouldn't the adjective change to match its gender?
Adjectives usually change their ending to match the noun's gender (like changing rojo to roja). However, adjectives that end in -e, like caliente, are gender-neutral. They stay exactly the same whether they describe a masculine or feminine noun!

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