Interrogatives

Questions that require a simple affirmative or negative answer:

1. Est-ce que

Est-ce que tu as faim?

2. Inversion

Aimes-tu le caf?
Naime-tu pas le caf?
Caroline aime-t-elle ma chanson?
3. Add nest-ce pas

Tu aimes le caf, nest-ce pas?

4. Intonation
Questions that ask for specific information:
1. Combien, comment, o, pourquoi, quand use either est-ce que or inversion
2. Quel, quelle, quels, quelles can only be followed by a noun or conjugated form of
tre
3. Interrogative pronouns; invariable and variable (agrees in gender and number with
noun it modifies or replaces)
People

Subject

qui

Qui aime la musique?

Who likes music?

Direct object

qui (+ inversion)

Qui as-tu vu au concert?

Who (whom) did you see at the
concert?

Object of preposition

qui (+ inversion)

Avec qui sors-tu ce soir?

With whom are you going out
tonight?

Things

Subject

quest-ce qui

Quest-ce qui tintresse?

What interests you?

Direct object

que/qu (+ inversion)
OR
quest-ce que

Que fais-tu?
What are you doing?
Quest-ce que tu as achet?
What did you buy?

Object of preposition

quoi (+ inversion)
OR
quoi est-ce que

De quoi parles-tu?
What are you talking about?
Avec quoi est-ce quelle se teint
les cheveux?
What is she dying her hair with?