"Son" lo peor ...

[deandddd]

People,

I just saw on RTVE, written in the news legend: "Son lo peor de Eapaña".

Wouldn't it be better to say "Son los peores de Eapaña"?

I still have a bit of trouble with grouping various things or people into a collective singular. The legend said "son", then the collective singular "lo".

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I also saw "estrategia del victimismo". The word victim doesn't sound very masculine to me.

But I am thinking that the "ismo" suffix only exists in the masculine, and that the suffix "ista" requires the feminine. Is that it?

Thanks in advance.

Dean

[aleCcowaN]

Isn't "they are the worst thing that happened to the country" a correct sentence? It includes plural subject "they" and singular "thing".

All words ending with "ismo" are masculine: extremismo, tremendismo, pasatismo, etc.

On the contrary, the ending -ista is invariable:
la tenista, el tenista
la deportista, el deportista
la artista, el artista

with the only exception of "el modisto", because calling a man identified fashion designer "el modista" would have been considered offensive, as they are so darn macho as a general rule. Today it is used "diseñador de moda/s" or "diseñador de indumentaria", so the term modisto only remains to spoil the dictionary.

[deandddd]

aleCcowaN,

Ah yes, you have explained it all very well. Thanks.

Summer is coming up, so I wish you a nice summer!

Silopanna/Dean