Breakdown of ¿Tú comes pastel o una manzana de postre?
tú
you (informal singular)
de
from / of
comer
to eat
la manzana
the apple
una
a, an (feminine)
o
or
el pastel
cake
el postre
dessert
Questions & Answers about ¿Tú comes pastel o una manzana de postre?
This sentence uses o to give a choice. Does it work exactly like English?
Why do we say de postre instead of para postre for "for dessert"?
When talking about what you are having for a certain course of a meal (like breakfast, lunch, or dessert), Spanish uses the word de. English speakers often want to translate "for" directly to para or por, but de postre is the standard, natural way to say "for dessert" in Spanish.
Why is there the word una before manzana but no article before pastel?
This mirrors how we speak in English! When you talk about cake in a general sense, you usually don't use "a" or "an", so in Spanish it is just pastel. An apple, however, is a single, countable item, so you use the feminine article una (an) to match the feminine word manzana.
How does this sentence ask a question without a word like "Do"?
Spanish doesn't use helper words like "do" or "does" to form questions. You simply take the normal statement—Tú comes (You eat)—and add spoken question intonation or written question marks: ¿Tú comes...? (Do you eat...?). You can also drop the pronoun entirely and just ask ¿Comes...? since the "you" is already built into the verb.
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