Word
¿De dónde son los amigos nuevos?
Meaning
Where are the new friends from?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of ¿De dónde son los amigos nuevos?
ser
to be
de
from / of
el amigo
the male friend
los
the (masculine plural)
Questions & Answers about ¿De dónde son los amigos nuevos?
Why is De dónde at the beginning of the sentence? In English we say "Where are they from?"
In Spanish, prepositions like de (from) or a (to) cannot go at the very end of a sentence. To ask "Where... from?", the de must attach to the front of the question word dónde, making it ¿De dónde...?
Why do we use son in this sentence instead of están?
Why does it say amigos nuevos instead of nuevos amigos?
In Spanish, adjectives (describing words) usually come right after the noun they describe. Since nuevos (new) describes the amigos (friends), it goes after the noun. Also, notice that nuevos ends in "-os" to match the plural, masculine noun amigos.