Asking questions in Spanish is pretty straightforward. There are two main kinds of questions:

General questions

Sometimes called yes/no questions, general questions are a simple request for verification or denial. There are 3 ways to ask these questions:

Information questions

Information questions are more complicated; they ask for more information, such as who, what, when, where, why, how, which, for what, etc.

Some common information question words:

Click on the Spanish word to hear it pronounced. Note that all question words have an accent.

In order to make a question with quién, simply use it to replace the subject of the sentence and use the third person singular form of the verb.

Making a question with the other question words is similar to #2 in general questions: Say the question word, then invert the subject and verb.

  
* Note that Spanish has a two-part question mark: an upside-down question mark ¿ at the beginning of the question and ? at the end. See my accents page to learn how to type this.

* Also note that the subject pronoun is optional.

Spanish interrogative pronouns

Spanish interrogative adjectives

Spanish for Beginners

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