what does "que practican ustedes" mean?

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anonymous · Answer

If it's interrogative, it's 
What do you practice?
If it's not, it's 
What you practice.

anonymous · Answer

Or "<something or other> that you practice"?  As in, for example, "los pasos que practican Uds."

I believe if it stands on its own, as a statement, it would have to be "lo que practican Uds." to mean "what you practice." But I'm not a native speaker.

anonymous · Answer

What do you practice?
What you practice.

I'm not from an Español speaking country, but I do speak it.

anonymous · Answer

Right, if it's cast as a question.

But it could also be a phrase within a sentence. The original questioner does not offer any punctuation, and embeds this phrase within his/her own sentence, so it's impossible to tell the context.

For example --

     la técnica que practican ustedes 

     la disciplina científica que practican ustedes

     ese extraño juego que practican ustedes

. . . and so on.

In this case, it's a relative clause "that you practice," where "that" modifies some noun that precedes it.

Additionally, if you precede it with "lo" -- lo que practican Uds. -- it then becomes "what you practice," as in, for example --

     Yo se lo que practican Uds.

(I know what you practice.)

anonymous · Answer

What do you practice?
 ¿Que practican ustedes?

venomghost · Answer

just adding a bit of info, "you" there can be singular or plural:

Tú (singular) = You = Ustedes(plural)
What do you practice? might be addressed to a single person (you/tú) or it may be plural (you/ustedes) take care

"Tú" is the informal singular form of "you". "Usted" is the formal singular form.

What do you practice? =  ¿Qué practican ustedes? =  ¿Qué practicas tú? = ¿Qué practica usted?

A few other details to remember:
- ¿Question? In Spanish we have both interrogations marks, to open and to close the question
-que its not the same as Qué , with the first letter in capital plus an accent, it's called "acento diacrítico" that little accent can change the meaning of a word ;) take care

venomghost · Answer

They = Ellos
You(Plural) = Ustedes

It's not the same persona keep an eye on that

What They practice = Lo que ellos practican

anonymous · Answer

que practican ustedes =what do you(many persons that you respect) practice