How to ask questions
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Who Qui |
Who did you meet ? I met my boyfriend. |
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When Quand |
When did you meet him? I met him yesterday. |
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Why Pourquoi |
Why did you meet him? Because
I had important things to tell him and that isn’t your business! |
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Where où |
Where did you meet him? I met him at school. |
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What Quoi |
What did you do? We went to the
cinema. |
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Which Lequel/ laquelle/ lesquels lesquelles |
Which cinema did you go to? The Paradiso
or the Ciné? We went to the Paradiso. |
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How Comment |
How do you go to school? By bus. How was the food? Excellent
but fattening. |
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Whose A qui |
Whose book is that? It’s Suzan’s
book. |
Les
composés
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What
colour (quelle couleur) |
What colour is your dress ? It’s blue |
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What name Quel
nom? |
What name is it? It’s THOMAS |
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What room Quelle
chambre |
What room is it? It’s number 402 |
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What… like Comment (description) |
What is the weather like? It’s sunny. |
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How many Combien (comptable) |
How many glasses
are there? There are 2 cocktail glasses and two tumblers. (comptables = sweets, women, people, bottles,
potatoes, metres…) |
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How much Combien (non comptable) |
How much is it? How much do I owe you? 4
pounds. How much sugar do you need to make this custard?
150 grammes. (non comptables = sugar, cotton, milk, love, money…
) |
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How far Quelle distance
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How far is Los Angeles from San Francisco?
Around 400 miles. |
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How high Quelle
hauteur |
How high is Sears Tower? It’s 1,464 feet high |
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How tall
Quelle grandeur |
How tall are you? One metre seventy. |
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How old Quel âge |
How old are you? I’m 18 years old. |
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How often A quelle fréquence |
How often do you go to the cinema? Every three
weeks. |
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How long Combien
de temps? |
How long have you been watching TV? For two
hours. |
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What time, what animal…………..how wide, how
deep, how fast………… |
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