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¿Cuántas personas hay en el restaurante grande?

¿Cuántas personas hay en el restaurante grande?
How many people are in the big restaurant?
From Lesson 28:How much and how many (cuánto)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Cuántas personas hay en el restaurante grande?

Why is it cuántas instead of cuántos?
The word for "how much" or "how many" has to match the gender and amount of the noun it belongs to. Because personas (people) is feminine and plural, we use the feminine plural form cuántas.
Why do we use hay here instead of están to say "are"?
Hay means "there is" or "there are" (or in a question, "are there"). We use it when asking about the quantity or existence of things. So, this sentence literally asks "How many people are there in the big restaurant?"
Why does grande come after restaurante?
In Spanish, describing words (adjectives) almost always come right after the thing they are describing. Instead of "big restaurant", you literally say "restaurant big" (restaurante grande).
Restaurante is masculine. Would grande change if it was describing a feminine word?
No. Adjectives that end in the letter -e, like grande (big) or inteligente (smart), are gender-neutral. They stay the exact same for both masculine and feminine words, though you still add an -s if the noun is plural.

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