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La ciudad donde trabajo está lejos.

La ciudad donde trabajo está lejos.
The city where I work is far away.
From Lesson 171:The place where (donde)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about La ciudad donde trabajo está lejos.

Why is está used here instead of es if the city's location is permanent?
Even though a city's physical location does not change, Spanish always uses the verb estar for the location of people, places, and things. You will use estar to say where a city is, but ser to describe what it is like.
Why doesn't donde have an accent mark over the 'o'?
In Spanish, question words only get accent marks when they are actually asking a question or expressing an exclamation, like in ¿Dónde estás?. Here, donde is simply connecting two parts of the sentence to mean 'where', so it does not take an accent mark.
Could trabajo mean 'job' in this sentence instead of 'I work'?
While el trabajo is a noun meaning 'the job' or 'the work', here it is the verb trabajar conjugated for 'I' (yo). You can tell it is an action because there is no article like el in front of it, creating the phrase donde trabajo (where I work).
Would lejos change to lejas because la ciudad is feminine?
No, lejos is an adverb meaning 'far away', and adverbs never change their endings to match gender or number. Whether you are talking about one feminine city or multiple cities, the word will always stay as lejos.

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