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¿Ustedes ven los animales?

¿Ustedes ven los animales?
Do you see the animals?
From Lesson 7:Making nouns plural (-s, -es)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Ustedes ven los animales?

Why does animal become animales instead of animals?
The singular word is animal, which ends in a consonant (the letter l). In Spanish, when a noun ends in a consonant, you make it plural by adding -es. If it ended in a vowel (like perro), you would just add -s to make perros.
Where is the word for "Do" in this question?
Spanish doesn't use helper words like "do" or "does" to make questions. Instead, you just use the normal sentence order (Ustedes ven meaning "You see") and wrap it in question marks (¿ ?) to show you are asking a question.
Why do we use ven with ustedes?
Ustedes means "you" when talking to more than one person (like "you all" or "you guys"). In Latin American Spanish, ustedes always shares the exact same verb endings as "they". So, just like you would say Ellos ven (They see), you say Ustedes ven (You all see).
Why is it los animales instead of el animales?
In Spanish, little words like "the" have to match the noun they go with in both gender and number. Because animales is plural and masculine, you must use the plural masculine word for "the", which is los. El is only used for a single masculine thing (like el animal).

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