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¿Tu hermano ha encendido el ordenador?

¿Tu hermano ha encendido el ordenador?
Has your brother turned on the computer?
From Lesson 114:The present perfect tense (hemos reiniciado)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Tu hermano ha encendido el ordenador?

Why does the sentence use ha instead of has, even though it starts with Tu?
Tu without an accent mark means "your", not "you". The subject of the sentence is tu hermano (your brother). Since "your brother" is a "he" (third-person singular), we use ha, which is the "he/she/it" form of the auxiliary verb haber.
Where does the word encendido come from?
It is the past participle of the verb encender (to turn on). To make the past participle of a regular -er verb, you drop the -er and add -ido. So, encender becomes encendido. Together with ha, it forms the present perfect tense meaning "has turned on".
I thought the word for computer was computadora. Is ordenador different?
Both words mean "computer", but el ordenador is the word used in Spain. In Latin America, you will usually hear la computadora or el computador. Since you are learning Spanish from Spain, ordenador is the most natural word to use here.
Can I change the word order and ask "¿Ha encendido tu hermano el ordenador?"
Yes, absolutely! In Spanish questions, it is very common to put the verb before the subject. Both structures are perfectly natural and mean the exact same thing. Just remember that you can never separate ha and encendido—the two parts of the compound verb must always stay together!

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