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El estudiante no come pollo.

El estudiante no come pollo.
The student does not eat chicken.
From Lesson 68:Meals and Proteins·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El estudiante no come pollo.

Why is the word for student "estudiante" instead of "estudianto" for a male?
Words that end in -ante often don't change their endings for gender. Instead, you change the article before the word to show who you are talking about. Here, el estudiante means a male student, and la estudiante would mean a female student.
Where is the word for "does" in "does not eat"?
Spanish does not use helper words like "do" or "does" to make a negative sentence. To say "does not eat", you simply put no right in front of the verb, giving you no come.
Why is there no word for "the" before pollo?
When you talk about consuming an unspecified amount of food, you leave out the article (like el or la). Just like in English, you say he does not eat chicken, so it is just pollo. If you said el pollo, it would mean he isn't eating one specific chicken.
How does the word come show who is eating?
Spanish verbs change their endings to match the person doing the action. The dictionary form of the verb is comer (to eat). For "I eat", it changes to como, but for "he", "she", or "it" (like el estudiante), the ending drops the "r" and becomes come.

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