Learn Spanish (Latin America): Ella come el pan y la manzana.

Ella come el pan y la manzana.

She eats the bread and the apple.

Breakdown of Ella come el pan y la manzana.

Questions & Answers about Ella come el pan y la manzana.

Is the word order here exactly the same as in English?

Yes! Just like in English, basic Spanish sentences follow a Subject-Verb-Object structure. We start with the subject (Ella), followed by the action or verb (come), and end with the object receiving the action (el pan y la manzana).

How would I make this sentence negative to say "She does not eat"?

You just put no directly before the verb. So, "She does not eat the bread" is Ella no come el pan. Notice that Spanish doesn't use extra helping words like "does" or "do" for negative sentences.

Why is it el pan but la manzana if both mean "the"?

In Spanish, all nouns have a gender (masculine or feminine), and the word for "the" has to match it. Pan (bread) is a masculine noun, so it takes the masculine article el. Manzana (apple) is feminine, so it takes the feminine article la.

Why is the verb come instead of como?

The ending of a verb changes depending on who is doing the action. Como means "I eat," but because the subject here is ella (she), the verb takes the -e ending for the third-person singular: come (she eats).