Interrogative Words in Spanish

Overview

• Learning interrogative words in Spanish.
• Comparison with English counterparts.
• Examples of usage.
• Importance of accents.
• Differences between various interrogatives.

Key Interrogative Words

¿Qué? - What?

• Usage in exclamations and questions.
• Example sentences:
  • ¿Qué haces? - What are you doing?
  • ¿Qué estás haciendo? - What are you doing? (more specific)
  • ¿Qué pasó? - What happened?
  • ¿Qué te pasa? - What's wrong with you?

¿Quién? - Who?

• Singular and plural usages.
• Example sentence:
  • ¿Quién es? - Who is?
  • ¿Quiénes son? - Who are?

¿Cuál? - Which?

• Distinction between singular and plural.
• Example sentences:
  • ¿Cuál? - Which?
  • ¿Cuáles? - Which ones?

¿Cuánto? - How many?

• Variations based on gender and number.
• Example sentences:
  • ¿Cuánto? - How many or How much? (singular, male)
  • ¿Cuántos? - How many? (plural, male)
  • ¿Cuánta? - How much? (singular, female)
  • ¿Cuántas? - How many? (plural, female)

¿Cómo? - How?

• Example sentence:
  • ¿Cómo? - How?
  • Yo como - I eat (no accent changes meaning)

¿Dónde? - Where?

• Example sentence:
  • ¿Dónde? - Where?

Importance of Accents

• Interrogative words need accent marks to differentiate from statements.
• Examples where meanings change without accents, like:
  • Como vs. Cómo
  • Ves vs. Vez

Practical Usage

• Common questions using ¿Qué?:
  • ¿Qué compraste? - What did you buy?
  • ¿Qué dijiste? - What did you say?
  • ¿Qué soñaste? - What did you dream?
  • ¿Qué necesitas? - What do you need?
  • ¿Qué te traigo? - What should I bring for you?
  • ¿Qué quieres? - What do you want?
  • ¿Qué le dijiste? - What did you say to him/her?
  • ¿Qué te dijo? - What did he/she say to you?
  • ¿Qué me ves? - What are you looking at?

Additional Comments

• Be cautious with certain phrases (e.g., ¿Qué me ves?) in different contexts.
• Use colloquial and native expressions carefully.

Conclusion

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