How To Ask A Question

Question 1

Est-ce que/qu’

Answer 1

Do/Does

comes before the statement

Question 2

n’est-ce pas?

Answer 2

isn’t that right?

End of statement

Question 3

d’accord?

Answer 3

ok?

comes at end of statement

Question 4

Inversion

Answer 4

Invert the order of the subject PRONOUN and the VERB and place a hyphen between them. If verb end in VOWEL and the subject pronoun begins w/il, elle or on, insert -t between VERB & PRONOUN. (Parlez-vous français? Mange-t-il à midi? Est-elle étudiante?)

Question 5

If the subject is a NOUN rather than a pronoun, PLACE THE NOUN AT THE BEGINNING of the question followed by the inverted verb & pronoun.

Answer 5

LE PROFESSEUR PARLE-T-IL français?

NINA ARRIVE-T-ELLE demain?

LES ÉTUDIANTS MANGENT-ILS au resto-U?

Question 6

Inverted form of il y a is…

Answer 6

Y A-T-IL une horloge dans la classe?

Is there a clock in the class?

Question 7

The inverted form of C’est is…

Answer 7

EST-CE le professeur de lettres?

Is he the humanities teacher?

Question 8

Pourquoi?

Answer 8

Why?

POURQUOI retrouves-tu Sophie ici?

Question 9

Parce que/qu’

Answer 9

to answer BECAUSE

Parce qu’elle habite près d’ici.
Because she lives near here.

Question 10

To make a sentence negative

Answer 10

Place ne/n’ BEFORE the conjugated verb, and pas AFTER.

• Je ne dessine pas bien. (I don’t draw well.)
• Elles n’étudient pas la chimie. (They don’t study chemistry.)

Question 11

Conjugated verb + infinitive

Answer 11

ne/n’ comes BEFORE the conjugated verb and pas after it.

-Abdel n’aime pas étudier. (Abdel doesn’t like to study.)

Question 12

In questions w/inversion…

Answer 12

place ne BEFORE the inversion and pas AFTER.

-Abdel n’aime-t-il pas étudier? (Doesn’t Abdel like to study?)

Question 13

Bien sûr

Answer 13

Of course

Question 14

(Mais)non

Answer 14

No (of course not)