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Question words: Uso y forma

Question words: Uso y forma

Carolina es una estudiante universitaria. She is talking to some of her fellow students. What is she asking? Pay attention to the answers to see if you can discover what each question word she uses means. What do you notice about question words in Spanish?

Carolina:¡Los estudiantes preguntan! ¿Quiénes son?
Los estudiantes:¡Somos estudiantes!

Carolina:¿Cuántas personas hay en tu clase de español?
Estudiante 1:Hay trece personas en mi clase de español.

Carolina:¿Cuántas clases estás tomando?
Estudiante 2:Estoy tomando cinco y tres son de español.

Carolina:¿Quién es tu profesor de español?
Estudiante 3:La Doctora Moyna. Es una de mis favoritas.

Carolina:¿Cómo es tu clase de español?
Estudiante 4:Mi clase de español es muy interesante y aprendemos mucho de la cultura española.

Carolina:¡Muchas gracias!

Did you discover what each question word means? Question words in Spanish and English work in similar ways, but there are also differences. Have you noticed any differences? Let’s see…

Question words that work in similar ways in both languagesExamples
¿Cómo? How? / What (to be) like?¿Cómo estás? (How are you?) ¿Cómo es tu clase de español? (What is your Spanish class like?)
¿Cuándo? When?¿Cuándo es tu clase de español? (When is your Spanish class?)
¿De dónde? From where?¿De dónde eres? (Where are you from?)
¿Dónde? Where?¿Dónde es la clase de español? (Where is the Spanish class?)
¿Por qué? Why?¿Por qué es interesante la clase? (Why is the class interesting?)

As you can see, like in English, these words are always placed at the beginning of the question, and they never change, regardless of the noun or verb that follows them.

Question words that are different in SpanishExamples
¿Cuánto? (masc.) / ¿Cuánta? (fem.) How much?¿Cuánto jugo hay? (How much juice is there?) ¿Cuánta harina hay? (How much flour is there?)
¿Cuántos? (masc.) / ¿Cuántas? (fem.) How many?¿Cuántos hombres hay en la clase? (How many men are there in the class?) ¿Cuántas profesoras hay en el departamento? (How many female professors are there in the department?)
¿Quién? (sing.) Who?¿Quién es tu instructor de español? (Who is your Spanish instructor?)
¿Quiénes? (plural) Who?¿Quiénes son tus amigos? (Who are your friends?)
¿Cuál? (sing.) Which?¿Cuál es tu clase favorita? (Which is your favorite class?)
¿Cuáles? (plural) Which?¿Cuáles son tus clases favoritas? (Which are your favorite classes?)

As you can see, most of these question words change their ending depending on the gender and number of the noun that follows them.

  1. Quién and cuál, which are always followed by a verb, only change their ending for number. These two question words can never be followed by a noun.
  2. Notice that questions in Spanish always start with an obligatory inverted question mark [¿]. Also, all Spanish question words (when used in a question) always have accents.

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