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¿Se venden los boletos en esta oficina?

¿Se venden los boletos en esta oficina?
Are the tickets sold in this office?
From Lesson 83:Impersonal statements (se)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Se venden los boletos en esta oficina?

Why is it venden and not vende if no specific person is doing the selling?
When using the passive se, the verb matches the thing being sold or acted upon. Because los boletos (the tickets) is plural, the verb must be the plural venden. If you were asking about just one ticket, it would be ¿Se vende el boleto?
Does this literally mean "The tickets sell themselves"?
Word-for-word, it looks like it! However, native speakers understand this se structure as "Are the tickets sold?" or "Do they sell tickets?" It is the standard way to talk about an action when we do not need to specify exactly who is doing it.
Why does los boletos come after the verb venden?
In Spanish, it is very common to put the subject after the verb in questions, and this is especially true for se sentences. You could say ¿Los boletos se venden...?, but starting with ¿Se venden...? sounds much more natural to native speakers.
I have learned the word entradas for tickets. Can I use that here instead of boletos?
Yes, but it depends on the type of ticket. Entradas usually refers to tickets that grant admission, like to a movie or a museum. Boletos is a great all-purpose word in Latin America that works for admission as well as transportation, like buses or trains.

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