📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 6 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 2 · Questions
Qué and quién — what and who
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 6 of 30: Every question word wears an accent mark. 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
qué
what
keh
quién
who
kyehn
¿quién habla?
who is speaking?
kyehn AH-blah
¿qué comes?
what are you eating?
keh KOH-mehs
¿qué te gusta?
what do you like?
keh teh GOOS-tah
algo
something
AHL-goh
todos
everyone / all
TOH-dohs
la pregunta
the question
lah preh-GOON-tah
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
Every question word wears an accent mark, and the mark is the whole difference between asking and not asking: qué asks what, que means that; quién asks who. ¿Qué es esto? ¿Quién habla? ¿Quién es ella?
Y también · And also
The question word goes first and the verb follows it straight away — no helper "do" anywhere: ¿Qué comes? is "what do you eat?" in two words. Open with ¿ and the reader knows a question is coming.
Ojo · Watch out
qué with its accent asks a question; que without it just joins two parts of a sentence. Copy the accent onto every question word — it is what makes it ask.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with qué.
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 6 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.