What does "Son de Chile sus vecinos?" mean? Are there any gramatical errors in this sentence?

Question

I saw this sentence on a text book and the reply to this question is "Si, son de Chile". This really baffles me.

The sentence should be ¿Son de Chile sus vecinos?. Don´t forget the first inverted question mark. - Eddy, Sep 8, 2010

Answer 1

"Are your neighbors from Chile?"

"Yes, they are from Chile."

Next time give the translation work a try. SpanishDict and GoogleTranslate can give you an idea of what the sentence means if you're totally lost.

Thx! but can i tranlate it to "they are from Chile, your neighbors?" ? - Mercent, Sep 8, 2010

Answer 2

Thx! but can i tranlate it to "they are from Chile, your neighbors?" ? - Mercent

No. This is just sentence structure, which is common in question forms. You can say "¿Sus vecinos son de Chile?" but it doesn´t sound natural and this is better reserved for statement forms. "¿Son de Chile sus vecinos?" is the best structure for asking this question.

muchas gracias! - Mercent, Sep 8, 2010

Answer 3

Could one use a comma in the original sentence? "Son de Chile, sus vicinos?"