Learn Spanish (Spain): ¿Vosotros laváis los platos sucios?

¿Vosotros laváis los platos sucios?

Do you guys wash the dirty plates?

Breakdown of ¿Vosotros laváis los platos sucios?

the plate / the dish (food)

lavar

to wash

Questions & Answers about ¿Vosotros laváis los platos sucios?

How would I change this sentence to say "Do you guys wash them?" using the pronouns from this lesson?

You would replace the full phrase los platos sucios with the masculine plural direct object pronoun los (them). In Spanish, this pronoun must go right before the conjugated verb. The new sentence would be: ¿Vosotros los laváis?

Why does laváis have a written accent mark?

Laváis is the vosotros form of lavar (to wash). In the present tense, regular -ar verbs always have a written accent mark on the á in the vosotros ending (-áis) to show that the spoken stress falls on that vowel.

Why is it los platos sucios instead of los sucios platos?

In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) usually come after the noun they are describing. Here, sucios (dirty) goes after platos (plates). Notice that sucios also ends in -os to match the masculine plural noun!

Where is the word for "Do" in the Spanish question?

Spanish doesn't use helper words like "do" or "does" to ask questions. You just take the normal statement (Vosotros laváis los platos sucios), wrap it in question marks, and raise your pitch at the end of the sentence when speaking.