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Level 19 - Asking Questions (Part 1)

If you want to ask a question in French there are a number of ways to do it. One of these is to put a question mark at the end of the sentence and change the tone of your voice to make it sound like a question:

c'est jeudi
c'est jeudi?

tu as un frère
tu as un frère?

  

it's Thursday
is it Thursday?

you have a brother
do you have a brother?

Another way of doing it is to take the sentence then simply put est-ce que in front of it. Est-ce que means 'is it that', so when you say est-ce que tu as un frère you are actually saying 'is it that you have a brother?'. If the word after que begins with a vowel the que becomes qu'. Here are some examples.

le café est dans la place
est-ce que le café est dans la place?

c'est mercredi
est-ce que c'est mercredi?

elle a une demi-sœur
est-ce qu'elle a une demi-sœur?

il porte une écharpe bleue
est-ce qu'il porte une écharpe bleue?

  

the café is in the square
is the café in the square?

it's Wednesday
is it Wednesday?

she has a half-sister
does she have a half-sister?

he is wearing a blue scarf
is he wearing a blue scarf?

The third (and probably the hardest) way is to change the order of the person and the verb like this:

vous avez mon stylo
avez-vous mon stylo?

tu es dans le magasin
es-tu dans le magasin?

  

you have my pen
do you have my pen?

you are in the shop
are you in the shop?

Other questions you can ask such as 'who?', 'why?', 'when?' etc can be found in Level 43.

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