Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 7 of 30: Dónde asks where and rides on estar: ¿Dónde está el gato? On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
| Spanish | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| dónde | where | DOHN-deh |
| cuándo | when | KWAHN-doh |
| ¿dónde está el gato? | where is the cat? | DOHN-deh ehs-TAH ehl GAH-toh |
| ¿dónde vives? | where do you live? | DOHN-deh BEE-behs |
| ¿de dónde eres? | where are you from? | deh DOHN-deh EH-rehs |
| soy de México | I am from Mexico | soy deh MEH-hee-koh |
| el cumpleaños | the birthday | ehl koom-pleh-AH-nyohs |
| ¿cuándo es tu cumpleaños? | when is your birthday? | KWAHN-doh ehs too koom-pleh-AH-nyohs |
| ahora | now | ah-OH-rah |
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Dónde asks where and rides on estar: ¿Dónde está el gato? ¿Dónde vives? Cuándo asks when: ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
Add de to ask where from: ¿De dónde eres? — Soy de México. The little de goes in FRONT of the question word, where English puts "from" at the end.
"Where are you from?" is ¿de dónde eres?, with de first. And where something IS takes estar: ¿dónde está?, never ¿dónde es?
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