Quelques révisions d’abord – Some revisions first…

1️⃣ We first learnt how to make questions using the adjective quel, for interrogations about the noun:

2️⃣ We learnt then how to make questions with yes/no answers, using rising tone or est-ce que structure:

3️⃣ We learnt how to make questions about what, using rising tone or est-ce que structure:

It is time now to expand your possibilities of making all kind of questions.

You will be happy to know that if you understand how questions about what work, what follows should be easy to understand. Start by observing the following examples:

Où ? – Where?

Quand ? – When?

Qui ? – Who?

Comment ? – How?

Pourquoi ? – Why?

Combien de … ? – How many?

Combien ? – How much?

You can choose to make your questions using rising tone or with est-ce que structure.

As you can see, the interrogative word comes at the end of a ‘rising tone’ question. The structure is:

subject + verb + interrogative word ?

For ‘est-ce que’ questions, the structure is:

interrogative word + est-ce que + subject + verb ?