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|Quién |Who |Cuál |Which |Cuánto(a) |How much |

|Quiénes |Who Plural |Cuáles |Which plural |Cuántos(as) |How many |

|Qué |What |Dónde |Where |Cuándo |When |

|A qué hora |At what time |A dónde |To where |Cómo |How |

|De dónde |From where | | |Por qué |Why |

I. Information questions. These questions begin with a question word.

II. Helpful Hints:

1. Use De dónde when asking where someone/thing is from.

Use with SER.

2. Use A dónde only with the forms of IR (to go).

Like I go to the park.

Where are you going to?

3. Use Dónde with ESTAR to ask about location.

4. Sometimes use Cómo to ask about descriptions of people / things.

5. Quiénes = plural who

6. Cuáles = plural which

III. Note that all question words have a written accent mark. All questions start off with an upside down “¿”

IV. Some question words have more than one form. Like it said in the “HELPFUL HINTS”

• quién and cuál have two:

Singular and Plural.

¿Quién es ella? ¿Quiénes son ellas?

Who is she? Who are they?

¿Cuál es tu pluma? ¿Cuáles son tus plumas?

Which is your pen? Which are your pens?

V. When cuánto modifies a noun, it must agree in number and gender with that noun.

Therefore, it has four forms: Cuánto, Cuánta, Cuántos, and Cuántas.

¿Cuánto helado quieres tú? How much ice cream do you want?

¿Cuánta tarea tienes tú? How much homework do you have?

¿Cuántos libros hay? How many books are there?

¿Cuántas horas bailas tú? How many hours do you dance?

VI. Both QUÉ and CUÁL correspond to the English word what. They are not always interchangeable, however.

Qué asks for a definition or an explanation.

• ¿Qué es un libro? What is a book?

Cuál asks for a selection.

• ¿Cuál es la capital de México? What (which city) is the capital of Mexico.

• ¿Cuál es tu padre? Which (one) is your dad?

VII. There are no question word equivalents to DO and DOES in Spanish.

* In the English sentence, DO you talk? DO is the question word.

*In Spanish, we do NOT have this question word so we start off the sentence with an upside down question mark and change the order of the verb and subject.

Therefore, we would say ¿Hablas tú? Which would translate literally to TALK YOU?

*In the English sentence, DOES he talk? DOES is the question word.

*In Spanish, we do NOT have this question word so we start off the sentence with an upside down question mark and change the order of the verb and subject.

Therefore, we would say ¿Habla él? Which would translate literally to

TALK HE?

QUESTION WORD PRACTICE

Translate these sentences into Spanish.

1. Do you have a pencil? _____________________________________

2. Does he have a carrot? _____________________________________

3. Does the dentist have many chairs? _____________________________________

4. Do they have cold? _____________________________________

5. Do I have two maps? _____________________________________

Translate these to Spanish and underline the QUESTION WORDS in Spanish.

6. How are you? _____________________________________

7. Who is the doctor? _____________________________________

8. Which is the capital of Bolivia? _____________________________

9. Where do you live (vives)? _____________________________________

10. How many tables do you have? __________________________________

11. How many students are there? ___________________________________

Take these Spanish sentences and convert them into Spanish questions.

12. La boda es hoy. ¿_____________ es la boda?

13 . Ella es un muchacha. ¿_____________ es ella?

14 . La dirección es 733 Carribe Ave. ¿_____________es la dirección?

15. Su nombre es Antonio. ¿_____________ se llama? O ¿_______ ___su nombre?

16. El novio es guapo. ¿_____________es el novio?

17. El baile empieza las ocho. ¿_____________empieza el baile?

18. Ellos van a ir a la boda. ¿_____________ van a ir?

19 . Ellos van a ir porque tienen que ir. ¿_____________van a ir ellos?

20. Ella es rubia y alta. ¿______________ es ella?

21. Ella tiene veinte años. ¿______________ años tiene ella?

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