Palabras Interrogativas en Español | Spanish Question Words for Beginners

Palabraas interrogativas. In this lesson, we are going to learn about palabraas interrogativas or interrogative words. Also known as question words. Sometimes in English we refer to some question words as the five W's of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Just like in English, palabas interrogativas are used to ask questions in Spanish. Some question words must agree with the plurality and singularity of a word and will need to be adjusted with an e s at the end if the subject noun is plural. Others must agree with feminine or masculine forms and endings will switch from an a to an o depending on the gender of the subject noun. Most of these words will be used when forming questions. It will be important to note that when writing out questions, punctuation marks in Spanish differ a little bit. Rather than putting one question mark at the end of a sentence, questions begin with an upside down question mark and end with a question mark. Also, in this lesson, we are first going to learn some new palabas andivas and then we will practice using them in an activity by learning how to create questions. All right. Now, let's get started and learn some new words. What is K? How is how many isos or quantas? This word will need to agree with feminine and masculine subject nouns. How much is guanto or quanta? This word will also need to agree with feminine and masculine nouns. Who is ken or kus? This word will need to agree with plural or singular nouns. Which or which ones is or quales? This word will need to agree with plural or singular nouns. When is quando? Why is porqu? Where is t? Good work. Now let's do an activity. This activity will work by asking you to translate an English question into Spanish. A question in English will flash on the screen and ask you to translate it. For this activity, you will need to recall and use our present tense conjugations and some of our new vocab words. So, for example, if I wanted to ask, why do you want bananas? I would first need to choose what interrogativa to use. Because the question word here is why, I would use the word bor. Although the next word in the question is do, when translating most questions from English to Spanish, we often omit words like do or does that we use in English questions, despite skipping this step, our questions will still be grammatically correct. Remember this little rule as we form the rest of our questions throughout the activity. Now I will need to conjugate you want into the to form. So I would have to look at our old chart and find the correct conjugation. Here we can see that the conjugation is for the last part of the question. I need to translate the word bananas into platinos. So our question why do you want bananas would be platinos. As we start to combine all the things we have learned thus far in the course, things can get a bit tricky, messy, and confusing. It's okay if you don't get the whole translation correctly. Focus on the parts of the questions that you got right and celebrate those little victories. Feel free to pause the video and give yourself time to think if the answers are being revealed too fast. Otherwise, let's get started with our first question. When do you study? If you saidwando, you are correct. Remember to omit the do or does in all of these questions. How would you translate the question, what is a dog? For this question, we will use the verb s instead of estar. If you saido, you are correct. Remember here that the article is indefinite because it is any dog, not the dog. How would you translate where is the cat? For this question, you will use the verb estar. If you said you are correct. Remember that the article in this question is L because it is a definite article because it is the cat not any cat. How would you translate how many dresses do you have? If you said vest, you are correct. Remember that quantos has to be in the masculine form because vestos is also in the masculine form. How would you translate who has a tie? If you said, you are correct. How would you translate how are you? In this question, we are going to be using the informal version of you and also the verb estar instead of s. If you said you are correct. Now let's do one more question. How would you say which pineapples do you want? We will be using the informal version of you. If you said, you are correct. This question was very tricky because pineapples is plural. We also need to use the plural form of gual, which is guales. We also need to remember to omit the do in this question. Good job. You have now completed this activity. This lesson was a bit tricky because we were learning how to form sentences. Translating English to Spanish does not always exactly mirror grammatically correct Spanish sentences. Remember to celebrate the pieces of the sentences you got right and know that we will continue to practice.