Breakdown of El organizador pregunta cuál es el proveedor del catering.
ser
to be
cuál
which / what (implying a choice)
del
of the / from the / about the (topic)
preguntar
to ask
el proveedor
the supplier
el organizador
the planner; the organizer (of an event)
el catering
the catering
Questions & Answers about El organizador pregunta cuál es el proveedor del catering.
Why does cuál have an accent mark if this isn't a direct question with question marks?
In Spanish, interrogative words like qué, cuál, dónde, and cuándo always keep their accent marks in indirect questions. Because the planner is reporting a question, cuál keeps its accent even without the question marks.
In English we say 'asks which one the catering supplier is'. Can I say pregunta cuál el proveedor del catering es?
No, that sounds very unnatural in Spanish. Unlike English, Spanish keeps the exact same word order in indirect questions as it does in direct ones. The verb es needs to stay right after the question word cuál.
Why do we use cuál es here instead of qué es?
We use cuál es when we want to identify a specific person or thing out of a group of possibilities. If you said qué es, you would be asking for the dictionary definition of a supplier, rather than asking which specific company is doing the job.
Is catering a standard word in Spain?
Yes, it is a very common loanword from English. It is treated as a regular masculine noun, which is why it takes the article el. In this sentence, the preposition de and the article el combine to form the contraction del catering.
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