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¿Ya han vaciado el camión?

¿Ya han vaciado el camión?
Have they emptied the truck already?
From Lesson 118:Present perfect triggers (ya, todavía no)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Ya han vaciado el camión?

Why is ya at the beginning of the sentence? Can I put it at the end like in English?
In Spanish, ya often goes before the verb, especially in questions like this. You can also put it at the end (¿Han vaciado el camión ya?), but starting the sentence with ya is very natural and common.
Could I say ¿Han ya vaciado el camión?
No. In Spanish, the helper verb (han) and the past participle (vaciado) are a strict team that cannot be separated by other words. The word ya must go before han or at the very end of the sentence.
How do we form the verb han vaciado?
This is the present perfect tense. It combines han (the 'they' or 'you all' form of the helper verb haber) with vaciado, which is the past participle of vaciar (to empty).
Is vaciado related to the adjective for 'empty'?
Yes! The adjective for 'empty' is vacío (or vacía). To make the action verb 'to empty', Spanish uses vaciar. In this sentence, we drop the -ar and add -ado to make the past participle vaciado (emptied).

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