Questions & Answers about ¿Adónde viajan ustedes?
Why use adónde instead of just dónde here?
dónde means "where," but adónde specifically means "to where." Because traveling involves moving toward a destination, Spanish requires you to include that sense of motion by adding a (to) to the front of the question word. In English, we might casually say "Where are you traveling?" but Spanish is stricter about saying "To where."
Why is the verb viajan instead of viajas, since the translation says "you"?
The English word "you" can be singular or plural. Here, the speaker is asking multiple people, so they use ustedes (you all / you guys). In Latin American Spanish, ustedes always uses the same verb ending as "they." Since viajar (to travel) is an -ar verb, it takes the -an ending. If you were asking just one person informally, it would be ¿Adónde viajas tú?
Why does ustedes come after the verb viajan?
Why does Adónde have an accent mark on the "o"?
All question words in Spanish require a written accent mark. This helps tell them apart from the exact same words when they are used in statements. For example, the question ¿Adónde? means "To where?", while the statement word adonde (with no accent) is used to connect sentences, meaning "where" or "to which".
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