Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¿Quién es el dueño de esta gorra?

¿Quién es el dueño de esta gorra?

Who is the owner of this cap?

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Since this lesson is about possessive pronouns, how would I answer that the cap is mine?

You would say, Es la mía. Because gorra (cap) is a feminine singular noun, you must use the feminine singular possessive pronoun la mía to replace it, regardless of your own gender.

Instead of asking who the owner is, could I just ask whose cap this is?

Yes! A very common way to ask this is ¿De quién es esta gorra? (literally: Of whom is this cap?). Both ways are perfectly natural, but asking who the dueño (owner) is can sound just a little more formal.

Why is it esta gorra and not esto gorra or está gorra?

Esta means this when pointing out a feminine singular noun like gorra. Esto is the neutral this used for abstract ideas or unknown objects (like ¿Qué es esto?), and está (with an accent) is a form of the verb estar (to be).

If the owner we are looking for might be a woman, does dueño change to dueña?

In Spanish, when you are asking generally and do not know the person's gender, you use the masculine form el dueño as the default. If you already knew for sure the owner was a woman, you could ask, ¿Quién es la dueña?