Usage Note
Cero is both a cardinal number and a masculine noun (el cero). In sports scores, cero is used rather than the English 'nil' or 'love'; a scoreline might be dos a cero. The phrase partir de cero ('to start from scratch') is very common in everyday speech.
Examples
"El marcador quedó dos a cero."
Natural Translation
The score ended two to zero.

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