Learn Spanish (Latin America): La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir. - The graduating class doesn't know which photographer to choose.

La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir.

The graduating class doesn't know which photographer to choose.

Breakdown of La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir.

to know (facts) / to hear from (someone)

la promoción

the graduating class

Questions & Answers about La promoción no sabe qué fotógrafo elegir.

Why does promoción translate to 'graduating class' here?

In Spanish, promoción has a few meanings. While it often means a sales promotion or a job promotion, in an educational context it refers to a 'class' or cohort of students graduating in the same year (like the class of 2024).

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?