Breakdown of ¿Quién es el estudiante nuevo?
ser
to be
el estudiante
the student
nuevo
new / another, different (before the noun)
quién
who
Questions & Answers about ¿Quién es el estudiante nuevo?
Why does Quién have an accent mark over the e?
In Spanish, all question words like quién (who), cómo (how), and cuándo (when) carry a written accent mark. This helps tell them apart from their non-question forms, even though they sound exactly the same when spoken out loud.
If there is more than one new student, do I still use quién?
The word estudiante ends in -e. Is it masculine or feminine?
It can be either! Because it ends in -e, the noun itself doesn't change gender. You can tell the gender by looking at the words around it. Here, the masculine article el and the masculine adjective nuevo tell us this is a male student. For a female student, it would be la estudiante nueva.
Why is it estudiante nuevo instead of nuevo estudiante?
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives like nuevo (new) usually go right after the noun they describe. So instead of saying new student, you say student new.
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