Learn Spanish (Latin America): Usted está en la oficina nueva.

In Spanish, there are two verbs for "to be": ser and estar. We use estar to talk about where someone or something is located. Since this sentence is about someone being physically located in the office, we must use a form of estar.

Why does usted use está? Isn't that the form for "he" or "she"?

Yes, está is used for "he" (él) and "she" (ella), but it is also used for the formal "you" (usted). Even though usted means "you", it always pairs with the exact same verb forms as "he" and "she".

Why is it oficina nueva instead of nueva oficina?

In English, descriptive words (adjectives) like "new" usually come right before the noun they describe. In Spanish, they almost always come right after the noun. So, "the new office" becomes la oficina nueva.

Why does nueva end in an "a" instead of an "o"?

Spanish adjectives have to match the gender of the noun they describe. The word for "office" is oficina, which is feminine (which we can also tell by the word la). Because of this, the word for "new" must take its feminine form, nueva, instead of the masculine nuevo.