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¿Quién es el dueño del coche?

¿Quién es el dueño del coche?
Who is the owner of the car?
From Lesson 23:Origin and possession (de, del)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Quién es el dueño del coche?

Why is it del coche instead of de el coche?
In Spanish, when the preposition de (of) is followed right away by the masculine singular word for the, which is el, they must squeeze together into the contraction del. You can never write de el together; it is always del.
Why does the translation say the owner of the car instead of the car's owner?
Spanish does not have an apostrophe-s to show possession like English does. To express ownership, you always have to flip the phrase around and say the [thing] of the [owner] using the preposition de.
Why does Quién have an accent mark?
All question words in Spanish, such as quién (who), qué (what), and dónde (where), carry a written accent mark. This helps tell them apart from the same words when they are used as simple connectors in regular sentences.
If the owner we are asking about is female, does the sentence change?
Yes. The word for owner changes based on gender. If you know the owner is a woman, you would change the masculine el dueño to the feminine form la dueña. The sentence would then be ¿Quién es la dueña del coche?

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