Question words

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Question words

¿Quíen? - Who? When asking a question ex. ¿Quíen está bebiendo?
¿Qué? - What? When asking a question
¿Qué llevan las mujeres? - What are the women wearing? The verb comes after the question word, then the noun.

¿Qué es este? - What is this? (close to speaker) estos = these. esta and estas are feminine
¿Qué es eso? - What is that? (far from speaker) esos = those. esa and esas are feminine
¿Qué es aquel? - What is that over there? (far away from both speaker and listener) aquellos = those. Aquella and aquellas = fem.

Also a neuter form for the demonstratives is used for discussing abstracts or an unknown objects
esto - this ¿Qué es esto? would be used when you have no idea what it is.
eso - that
aquello - that over there
Good site discussing this: http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/demonstratives.htm


¿Dónde? - Where? When asking a question
¿Dónde está...? Where is...? (singular) example ¿Dónde está el gato?
¿Dónde están...? Where is...? (plural) example ¿Dónde están los gatos?

¿De qué color...? - What color ...? ¿De qué color es este carro?

¿Cuál de...? - Which of ...? Like, which of these cars is blue? ¿Cuál de los carros es azul? Notice that the verb and adjective stay singular, even though 'carros' is plural.

¿Qué está haciendo ...'noun?' - What is 'noun' doing? ¿Qué está haciendo el niño? El niño está nadando.
Notice again, to ask a question: Question word (Qué) verb (está haciendo) and lastly, noun (el niño). Where in English, we say: What is the boy doing? So, it's question word (What) part of verb (is) noun (the boy) last part of verb (doing?).