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¿A qué hora sales para la empresa con el currículum?

¿A qué hora sales para la empresa con el currículum?
At what time do you leave for the company with the resume?
From Lesson 92:Destinations, deadlines, and purpose (para)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿A qué hora sales para la empresa con el currículum?

Why do we use para in sales para la empresa?
In this sentence, para tells us the destination you are heading toward. When used with verbs of motion like salir (to leave), para acts like the English word "for" or "headed to." So, sales para translates perfectly to "you leave for."
Why does the sentence start with A (¿A qué hora...?)?
In Spanish, when you ask "At what time...?" you must include the preposition a (at) right at the beginning. If you just asked ¿Qué hora es?, it would mean "What time is it?" instead of asking when a specific event is happening.
Doesn't the verb salir usually go with the word de?
It depends on the direction! You use salir de when you are talking about where you are leaving from (like salir de casa, meaning "to leave the house"). Because this sentence focuses on the destination you are traveling to, it uses salir para (to leave for).
Why does currículum have an accent mark?
The accent mark tells you to put the spoken stress on that specific syllable (rí). Without the accent mark, the standard rules of Spanish pronunciation would make you stress the second-to-last syllable (cu).
Could I use compañía instead of empresa here?
Yes, absolutely! Both empresa and compañía are very common words for a business or company in Latin American Spanish, and you can use them interchangeably in this sentence.

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