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Sometimes French grammar is much stricter than English grammar. A simple question like "What
book do you want?" is technically incorrect, because in proper English, the question should be
"Which book do you want?" In reality, the former is much more common than the latter.
In French, however, one does not have this option: the French equivalent of which, quel, must be
used whenever there is more than one noun that you are choosing between. Like all French
adjectives, quel has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies - see the table at the
end of this lesson.
The uses of quel are fairly straightforward - you need it whenever you want to ask for specific
information about a noun:
À quelle heure veux-tu partir ? / À quelle heure est-ce que tu veux partir ?
What time do you want to leave?
French Interrogative
Adjectives
Sing Plur
ular al
Masc que
quel
uline ls
Femin quell que
ine e lles