Learn Spanish Free - How to make Questions in Spanish & Conversation Skills

Forming Questions in Spanish

Beginning with the main verb. There are several ways to form questions in Spanish:

(conjugated according to the person)

¿Comes en el restaurante?
Do you eat at the restaurant?

¿Caminas en la ciudad?
Do you walk in the city?

Beginning with the subject

¿Elías trabaja en el banco?
Does Elías work at the bank?

Beginning with question words such as:

Spanish
English
¿Qué?
What?
¿Dónde?
Where?
¿Cuándo?
When?
¿A qué hora?
What time?
¿Cómo?
How?
¿Quién?
Who?
¿Por qué?
Why?

The formula for these types of questions is:

¿Question word + verb + complement?

Important Note: For questions in Spanish, there must be two question marks; one at the beginning (¿) and one at the end (?) of the question.

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Practice Exercises

1) Write questions beginning with the verb
(conjugated according to the subject)

Example:

¿Trabajas en las mañanas?
Do you work in the mornings?

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2) Write questions beginning with information words

Example:

¿Cuándo cocinas en casa?
When do you cook at home?

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Important Tip: When addressing actions in sentences (verbs conjugated), the subject is often implied in Spanish. There is no need to add a subject in many cases in affirmative, negative or question sentences.

Skills for conversations:

To have a conversation in Spanish, it is necessary:

- To know the words (verbs, nouns and expressions) of origin of the country in which you are speaking.

- If you do not know them, try to have good trust with the sender of the message (if he is a foreigner), in order to ask the different meanings and adjust them to the Spanish known to him.

- Do not try to change the Spanish style of the person you are speaking to.

- Be friendly and exchange pure expressions with the interlocutor (or interlocutors) in order to increase cultural knowledge in both.

- Accept the type of pronunciation of the interlocutors, if they are foreigners.

- Learn different ways of asking and answering in Spanish, as well as vocabulary.

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Everyday scenarios (Escenarios de la vida cotidiana)

Practice

Listen to some short conversations about daily scenarios or routines

*En el metro	*In the subway
parlante: “Llegando a estación (xxxx)”	speaker: “You are arriving to station (xxxx)”
pasajero: ¿Cuánto cuesta el ticket para (estación)? vendedor: cuesta 1 euro	passenger: How much is the ticket to (station)?   seller: it is 1 euro
Conversación: A: ¿Hasta qué estación vas? B: Voy hasta la estación (xxxx)	Conversation: A: Which station are you going? B: I go to station (xxxx)
Puede recargar su tarjeta de metro	You can deposit in your metro card
Diferentes líneas del metro	Different metro ways

 

*En el parque	*At the park
¡Mira las ardillas!	Look at the squirrels!
¡Vamos a los botes!	Let’s go to the boats!
¡Comamos estos dulces típicos!	Let’s eat these typical swets!
¡Me gusta caminar en este lado del parque!	I like walking on this side of the park!
¡Toma fotografías de los animales!	Take the animals some pictures!
¡Hace mucho frío en el parque!	The weather is too cold in the park!
¡Mira las aves!	Look at the birds!

 

*En el zoológico	*At the zoo
¡Qué grandes jirafas!	How big giraffes!
¡Mira a los elefantes!	Look at the elephants!
¡Qué bonitos patos!	How beautiful ducks!
¡Ahí hay unas cebras!	There there are some zebras!
¡Aquí hay algunos monos!	Here are some monkeys!
¡Qué grandes camellos!	How big camels!

 

*En la zapatería	*At the shoe store
A:¿Qué se le ofrece?	What can I do for you?
B:Necesito unos zapatos talla (#)	I need some shoes size (#)
A:¡Seguro!	Sure!
B:¡Gracias!	Thank you!
A:Aquí los tiene	Here they are
B:¡Oh! ¡Me quedan un poco grandes!	Oh! They don’t fit me! They are a little big!
A:¿Quiere que se los cambie por otros número?	Shall I change them for other ones/ another size?
B:Sí, ¡por favor!	Yes, please!

Note: Sometimes, sentences have a different sentence sense or structure. There may be sentences like the following ones:

Nadie sabe lo que pasa

Nobody knows what happens

In the above sentence, the subject is an indefinite pronoun. Although the sentence structure is the same as the one explained above, is it different in the sense that nobody does an action.

 

Another type of sentence possibly seen is:

¡Hace frío aquí!

It’s cold here!

In Spanish, there are impersonal sentences, like the one above. They are mostly used for expressing situations.

Here is another type of sentence:

Cuando ellos van al parque, no juegan.

When they go to the park, they don’t play.

In order to be more specific about quantities expressed in sentences, the position of elements and have more details in the language, numbers are very important. Let’s study them in the next chapter.

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