La dueña de la granja agradece la ayuda de la familia.

The owner of the farm appreciates the family's help.

Breakdown of La dueña de la granja agradece la ayuda de la familia.

• la familia: the family
• de: of
• la ayuda: the help
• agradecer: to appreciate

Questions & Answers about La dueña de la granja agradece la ayuda de la familia.

What does dueña mean exactly, and why is it feminine here?

Dueña means female owner.

Spanish has grammatical gender, and many nouns referring to people have masculine and feminine forms:

• dueño = male owner
• dueña = female owner

Because the sentence is talking about a woman who owns the farm, it uses la dueña (feminine article la + feminine noun dueña).

Why is it la granja and not el granja?

Granja (farm) is a feminine noun in Spanish, so it always takes the feminine article la:

• la granja = the farm
• una granja = a farm

You don’t choose the gender logically; you just learn it with the noun.
Masculine nouns take el/un, feminine nouns take la/una, and granja happens to be feminine.

Why is it de la granja and not del granja?

Del is a contraction of de + el and can only be used before a masculine singular noun:

• de + el perro → del perro (of the dog – masculine)

Here we have a feminine noun:

• la granja (the farm – feminine)

So we must say:

• de la granja (of the farm), not del granja.
  There is no contraction with la: de la, de las stay separate.