What's the difference between "Sí, él es" and "Sí, lo es" ?
One time, my friend and i were attempting to have a conversation in Spanish. My friend is a native Spanish speaker, and i'm not. So when we were talking about a guy she likes, I said to her, "Él no es guapo." (He is not good-looking). And she replies, "Sí, lo es!" (Yes he is!) I don't understand why she used the pronoun "lo" instead of "él".
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She doesn't used the pronoun "lo" instead of "él". She used that "lo" instead of the adjective "guapo", and the rule says that "lo" must be places before the verb. And the pronoun "él" was omitted
So:
Sí, él es = Yes, he is.
Sí, [él] lo es = Yes he is [good-looking].
That "lo" always replaces the adjective in a copula (a kind of verb), in Spanish there are 3 copulae only: "ser" (be), "estar" (be) and "parecer" (seem, look, appear). In any other case, that "lo" means "it"
In English you can't add any pronoun after a copula, however in Spanish, you can add the pronoun "lo" only.
[Yo] Lo tengo = I have it.
[Yo] Lo parezco = "I do" or "I seem"
SÃ, èl es means yes he is. SÃ, lo es means yes it is!
this question got me thinking, i dont know why we say si lo es, it has not explication