#question words

[dailygerman]

der Überblick | Overview - day 20

Was? - What? Wo? - Where? Wann? - When? Warum? - Why? Wer? - Who? Wie? - How? Welcher? - Which? Woher? - From where? Wie viel? - How much? How many?

Related vocab we've already reviewed:

Wie geht's? - how are you? die Frage - question

Bonus vocab:

Common adjectives

If you're studying German along with me, let's ask each other basic questions in the comments. Let's practice!

[tealingual]

Question words in Arabic

What - مَا [mā] (followed by a noun) What - مَاذَا [māḏā] (followed by a verb) Where - أَيْنَ [ʔayna] When - مَتَى [matā] Who - مَنْ [man] Why - لِمَاذَا [li-māḏā] Which - أَيّ [ʔayy] How - كَيْفَ [kayfa] How much - كَمْ [kam]

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

I like how there are words that if you put them at the start of a sentence, they're almost always a question, but there are exceptions, like:

How dreadful!

What a cute puppy!

When we get there, we'll stop for ice cream.

Why, I oughtta...

Who you are is more important than what.

Where you are, there I am.

Having trouble with "is" though! Is there a sentence beginning with the word "is" that isn't a question?

[trolledu]

suffix 'ness' and suffix 'ive'

[er-cryptid]

[chenopodiumlang]

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Spurning er það að spyrja, það sem spurt er um.

Íslenska // English // Русский

að bera fram spurningu // to raise/ask a question // задать вопрос leggja fyrir x spurningu // to ask x a question // задать x-у вопрос

Questions in Icelandic are fairly easy! Simply switch around the verb and the subject:

Hvað er þetta? Þetta er tölva. (What is this? This is a computer.)

In informal speech, ´þú´ can assimilate with the verb:

Veistu hvað er að gerast? (Do you know what's going on?)

Icelandic has a lot of question words, here are some:

Hvað? - What?

Hver? - Who?

Hvar? - Where? (location)

Hvernig? - How?

Hvers vegna? - Why?

Hversu mikið? - How much?

Hversu margir? - How many?

Note that ´hv´ is pronounced like [kv]!

[bongboyblog]

West Medinipuria Bengali

Question words

Here, SCB= Standard Colloquial Bengali and WMB= West Medinipuria Bengali

Most of the words are just the same as in Standard Bengali. Many Bengali dialects seem to replace কোন (kon) with কুন (kun), which I find really fascinating. Assamese does the same, কোন (kün).