Breakdown of La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir.
no
no, not
qué
what
saber
to know (facts) / to hear from (someone)
la promoción
the graduating class
elegir
to choose
el fotógrafo
the photographer
Questions & Answers about La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir.
Why does promoción translate to 'graduating class' here?
Why is it qué fotógrafo instead of cuál fotógrafo for 'which photographer'?
As a general rule in Spanish, when the question word is placed directly in front of a noun (like fotógrafo), you must use qué to mean 'which' or 'what'. You use cuál when asking 'which one' out of a group, but usually not right before a noun (for example, ¿Cuál de los fotógrafos?).
Why is elegir in the infinitive here instead of being conjugated?
Just like in English ('doesn't know which photographer to choose'), Spanish uses an infinitive after question words like qué, cómo, or dónde when the subject doing the action remains the same. Since the graduating class is both the entity that doesn't know and the one that will choose, we leave elegir in its unconjugated form.
Since 'the graduating class' is a group of people, why is the verb sabe singular?
La promoción is a collective noun. Even though it represents multiple students, the word itself is grammatically singular. Therefore, it takes the singular verb sabe.
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