Viene is the third person singular form of the verb venir (to come).
Present tense of venir:
In this sentence, ese ruido is singular, so the verb is singular too:
Literally, it is that noise comes / more naturally, that noise is coming.
In Spanish, venir de is very natural for talking about where a sound, smell, light, problem, or effect comes from.
Examples:
So with ruido, Spanish uses the idea of coming from a source, just like English often does.
Ese means that, while este means this.
Very roughly:
So ese ruido means that noise. The speaker is referring to a specific noise that is not treated as especially close.
In real Spanish, the difference between este and ese is sometimes less strict than in textbook explanations, but this is the basic idea.
Spanish often keeps a structure that is closer to From where comes that noise?
So:
This is completely normal Spanish word order for this kind of question.
You could think of the structure as:
English usually prefers Where is that noise coming from?, but Spanish does not need an extra is here.
Yes, grammatically you can, but it is less natural in many everyday situations.
In Spanish, the simple present often covers meanings that English expresses with the present continuous.
So Spanish prefers:
even when English says:
Spanish uses both an opening and a closing question mark:
So the correct punctuation is:
The opening mark tells you immediately that the sentence is a question.
In Spain Spanish, viene is pronounced roughly like BYEH-neh.
A few pronunciation points:
Also, in standard Spanish, b and v are pronounced very similarly, so viene does not sound like English vee-ene.
Yes. Ruido usually means noise, but it can also mean:
In this sentence, it most naturally means that noise or that sound.