📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 10 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 2 · Questions
Cuál, cuáles — which
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 10 of 30: Cuál asks which one, and it has a plural: ¿Cuál es tu color favorito? On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
cuál
which (one)
kwahl
cuáles
which (ones)
KWAH-lehs
¿cuál es tu color favorito?
which is your favorite color?
kwahl ehs too koh-LOHR fah-boh-REE-toh
favorito
favorite (m)
fah-boh-REE-toh
favorita
favorite (f)
fah-boh-REE-tah
el color
the color
ehl koh-LOHR
¿qué libro?
which book?
keh LEE-broh
¿cuáles son tus libros?
which ones are your books?
KWAH-lehs sohn toos LEE-brohs
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Cuál asks which one, and it has a plural: ¿Cuál es tu color favorito? ¿Cuáles son tus libros? Before a noun Spanish prefers qué — ¿qué libro? — and keeps cuál for choosing among things already in view.
Y también · And also
Cuál also asks the questions English asks with "what" when the answer is one item from a set: ¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono? ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?
Ojo · Watch out
Before a noun use qué, not cuál: ¿qué color?, never ¿cuál color?. cuál stands alone or before es: ¿cuál es tu color favorito?
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with cuál.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 10 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.