Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¿Él empieza el negocio contigo?

¿Él empieza el negocio contigo?

Does he start the business with you?

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Why is it empieza instead of "empeza"?

The verb for "to start" is empezar. It is a stem-changing verb, which means the vowel in the root of the word changes when you conjugate it. For empezar, that first e turns into ie, giving us empieza for "he starts".

Do all forms of empezar get this ie change?

Almost all of them, but the nosotros (we) form is a major exception. It keeps the original e from the infinitive, so "we start" is empezamos. The ie change happens for yo, tú, él, ella, usted, and all plural "they/you all" forms.

Why is "with you" written as the single word contigo?

Normally, the word for "with" is con. However, when you want to say "with you" (informal), Spanish combines con and the pronoun ti into the special fused word contigo. Another one you will see often is conmigo, meaning "with me".

Why is there no Spanish word for "Does" at the beginning of this question?