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No pregunto dónde está la salida por orgullo.

No pregunto dónde está la salida por orgullo.
I don't ask where the exit is out of pride.
From Lesson 281:Causality with adjectives and nouns (por)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about No pregunto dónde está la salida por orgullo.

Why does por translate to "out of" in this sentence?
In Spanish, por is used to express the cause or reason for an action. When an action is driven by an emotion or a personal trait (like orgullo, meaning "pride"), English often uses phrases like "out of" or "because of." So, por orgullo essentially means "because of pride."
Why does dónde have an accent mark even though there are no question marks?
Even in indirect questions—sentences that report or talk about a question without asking it directly—question words like dónde, qué, and cuándo keep their written accent marks. Here, dónde está la salida is the question the speaker is refusing to ask.
An exit is a permanent part of a building, so why do we use está instead of es?
Because we are talking about location. A golden rule in Spanish is that the verb estar is always used to describe where someone or something is located in space. It doesn't matter if that location is temporary (like a person) or permanent (like an exit or a city)—you still use estar.
Is the word salida related to a verb?
Yes! It comes from the verb salir, which means "to leave" or "to go out." Changing the ending to -ida turns it into the noun salida, which means "the exit" or "the departure."

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