{"id":907,"date":"2011-08-03T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2018-10-14T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T08:49:25","slug":"spanish-interrogatives-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/spanish-interrogatives-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Interrogatives – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interrogatives, “interrogativos” in Spanish are words used to ask questions to get an specific information from the subject who is asked.<\/h1>\n

These are the main interrogatives in Spanish:<\/h2>\n

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– Qu\u00e9 (What)<\/p>\n

– C\u00f3mo (How)<\/p>\n

– Cu\u00e1l \/ Cuales (Which)<\/p>\n

– D\u00f3nde (Where)<\/p>\n

– Cuando (When)<\/p>\n

– Cu\u00e1nto \/ Cu\u00e1nta \/ Cu\u00e1ntos \/ Cu\u00e1ntas (How much \/ How many)<\/p>\n

– Qui\u00e9n \/ Qui\u00e9nes (Who)<\/p>\n

– Por qu\u00e9 (Why)<\/p>\n

– Para qu\u00e9 (For what)<\/p>\n

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Most of the cases you will be able to use the interrogatives above to ask in the same way you do in English, but there is a important difference in the way we ask in Spanish, this is the word order.<\/p>\n

In English, the word order in interrogative sentences is normally inverted respect the affirmations.<\/p>\n

Meaning that the verb usually comes before the subject. However, word order is quite free in Spanish existing even regional differences.<\/h3>\n

This could seem to add difficulty to the business but it does not because you can ask using the same structure that you do when you build a positive sentence and make the difference by changing the intonation.<\/p>\n

There is another important thing that maybe you have noticed already, the questions marks.<\/p>\n

In Spanish, you should remember to put question mark not only at the end of the question but at the beginning as well.<\/h2>\n

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\u00bfQu\u00e9?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n