Breakdown of ¿Cuál es la casa grande?
ser
to be
la casa
the house / home (also "at home")
grande
big
cuál
which / what (implying a choice)
Questions & Answers about ¿Cuál es la casa grande?
Why do we use Cuál here instead of Qué?
When you are asking someone to choose or identify a specific thing from a group of possibilities, you use Cuál. You would use Qué to ask for a definition, like asking what a house actually is.
Why does Cuál have an accent mark over the letter a?
All question words in Spanish, including cuál, qué, and cómo, need a written accent mark. This tells the reader it is a question word rather than a normal connecting word.
Why is the order casa grande instead of grande casa?
The word casa is feminine. Why doesn't grande change to granda?
Adjectives that end in the letter e, like grande, are gender-neutral. They stay exactly the same whether they describe a masculine word like perro or a feminine word like casa.