---
id: 69b04d1df7c50920d9302985
title: Task 5
challengeType: 22
dashedName: task-5
lang: es
---

<!-- (Audio) Sebastián: ¿Cuántos empleados tiene la empresa?
Elena: La empresa tiene setenta y tres empleados. -->

# --description--

In this task, Sebastián asks about quantity using `¿Cuántos...?`.

`Cuántos` is used to ask how many, and it changes depending on gender and number. Here, it matches `empleados` (masculine plural).

When you listen to the audio, notice Elena's response. She says `La empresa tiene...`

She answers in third-person singular because she is talking about `la empresa`, not about herself.

# --instructions--

Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

# --fillInTheBlank--

## --sentence--

`¿BLANK empleados BLANK la empresa?`

## --blanks--

`Cuántos`

### --feedback--

This interrogative word is used to ask about quantity. Don't forget the accent mark.

---

`Tiene`

### --feedback--

This is the third person singular form of `tener`, used with `la empresa`.

# --explanation--

`¿Cuántos empleados tiene la empresa?` means `How many employees does the company have?`

`La empresa tiene setenta y tres empleados.` means `The company has seventy-three employees.`

# --scene--

```json
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        }
      },
      {
        "character": "Elena",
        "position": {
          "x": 125,
          "y": 0,
          "z": 1
        }
      }
    ],
    "audio": {
      "filename": "ES_A1_sebastian_asks_elena_about_her_company.mp3",
      "startTime": 1,
      "startTimestamp": 35.45,
      "finishTimestamp": 43.97
    },
    "alwaysShowDialogue": false
  },
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      "character": "Sebastián",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "character": "Elena",
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      },
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    },
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        "text": "¿Cuántos empleados tiene la empresa?",
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      }
    },
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      "dialogue": {
        "text": "La empresa tiene setenta y tres empleados.",
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      }
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      },
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    },
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    }
  ]
}
```
