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Interrogatives

Interrogative Phrases that Do Not Contain Interrogatives

Similarly to English, an interrogative sentence in Spanish will have a verb before the subject pronoun.

1. You-all are wet Ustedes están mojados
2. Are you-all wet? ¿Están ustedes mojados?
3. You are French Tú eres francés
4. Are you French ¿Eres tú francés?

 

1. Word order in Spanish is very flexible, therefore it is very common to use the affirmative form with the intonation of a question, e.g. ¿(Tú) eres francés?
2. Spanish interrogative sentences have an upside-down question mark (¿) in the beginning of the sentence to indicate where the question begins.


 

Interrogatives

Spanish English   Spanish English

¿Qué?

What?  

¿Cuándo?

When?

¿Quién/es?

Who?  

¿Cómo?

How?

¿De quién?

Whose?  

¿Por qué?

Why?

¿Cuál/es?

Which?  

Porque...

Because...

¿Dónde?

Where?  

¿Cuánto/a?

How much?
     

¿Cuántos/as?

How many?

 
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