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El vecino conoce al estudiante.

El vecino conoce al estudiante.
The neighbor knows the student.
From Lesson 27:The personal 'a' (a)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El vecino conoce al estudiante.

How can I use a question word to ask where the neighbor knows the student from?
You would ask ¿De dónde conoce el vecino al estudiante? When asking "from where", you put the preposition de (from) right in front of the question word dónde (where).
Why does the sentence say al estudiante and not just el estudiante?
When an action is done to a specific person, Spanish requires a "personal a" before the person's noun. Here, the neighbor knows the student, so we need a before el estudiante. The words a and el always combine to form the single contraction al.
Why is "knows" translated as conoce instead of sabe?
Spanish has two different verbs for "to know". You use conocer (which becomes conoce for "he/she knows") when talking about being acquainted with a person, place, or thing. If you were talking about knowing a fact or a piece of information, you would use the verb saber instead.
Is estudiante a masculine or feminine word?
The noun estudiante is exactly the same for both males and females. You can tell that the student in this sentence is male because it uses the masculine article el (hidden inside the contraction al). If the student were female, the sentence would be El vecino conoce a la estudiante.

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