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Interrogative pronouns - Easy Learning Grammar Spanish

What is an interrogative pronoun?
In English, an interrogative pronoun is one of the words who, which, whose, whom, and what when they are used without a noun to ask questions.
  • These are the interrogative pronouns in Spanish:
SingularPluralMeaning
¿qué?¿qué?what?
¿cuál?¿cuáles?which? which one(s)?; what?
¿quién?¿quiénes?who? (as subject or after a preposition)
¿cuánto?/¿cuánta?¿cuántos?/¿cuántas?how much? how many?
  • Note that question words have an accent on them in Spanish.

1   ¿qué?

  • ¿qué? is the equivalent of what? in English.
¿Qué están haciendo?What are they doing?
¿Qué dices?What are you saying?
¿Para qué lo quieres?What do you want it for?
  • You can use ¿por qué? in the same way as why? in English.
¿Por qué no vienes?Why don’t you come?

2   ¿cuál?, ¿cuáles?

  • ¿cuál? and ¿cuáles? are usually the equivalent of which? in English and are used when there is a choice between two or more things.
¿Cuál de estos vestidos te gusta más?Which of these dresses do you like best?
¿Cuáles quieres?Which (ones) do you want?
  • Note that you don’t use cuál before a noun; use qué instead.
¿Qué libro es más interesante?Which book is more interesting?
  • For more information on Interrogative adjectives, see Interrogative adjectives.

3   qué es or cuál es?

  • You should only use ¿qué es ...? (meaning what is...?) and ¿qué son ...? (meaning what are...?) when you are asking someone to define, explain or classify something.
¿Qué es esto?What is this?
¿Qué son los genes?What are genes?
  • Use ¿cuál es ...? and ¿cuáles son ...? (also meaning what is ...? and what are ...?) when you want someone to specify a particular detail, number, name and so on.
¿Cuál es la capital de España?What is the capital of Spain?
¿Cuál es tu consejo?What’s your advice?

4   ¿quién?

  • ¿quién? and ¿quiénes? are the equivalent of who? in English when it is the subject of the verb or when used with a preposition.
¿Quién ganó la carrera?Who won the race?
¿Con quiénes los viste?Who did you see them with?
¿A quién se lo diste?Who did you give it to?
  • ¿a quién? and ¿a quiénes? are the equivalent of who(m)? when it is the object of the verb.
¿A quién viste?Who did you see? or
Whom did you see?
¿A quiénes ayudaste?Who did you help? or
Whom did you help?
  • ¿de quién? and ¿de quiénes? are the equivalent of whose? in English.
¿De quién es este libro?Whose is this book? or Whose book is this?
¿De quiénes son estos coches?Whose are these cars? or Whose cars are these?

5   ¿cuánto?, ¿cuántos?

  • ¿cuánto? (masculine) and ¿cuánta? (feminine) are the equivalent of how much in English. ¿cuántos? (masculine plural) and ¿cuántas? (feminine plural) are the equivalent of how many?
¿Cuánto es?How much is it?
¿Cuántos tienes?How many have you got?
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  • Nouns
    • Using nouns
    • Gender
    • Forming plurals
  • Articles
    • Different types of article
    • The definite article: el, la, los and las
    • The indefinite article: un, una, unos and unas
    • The article lo
  • Adjectives
    • Using adjectives
    • Making adjectives agree
    • Word order with adjectives
    • Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives
    • Demonstrative adjectives
    • Interrogative adjectives
    • Adjectives used in exclamations
    • Possessive adjectives (1)
    • Possessive adjectives (2)
    • Indefinite adjectives
  • Pronouns
    • Personal pronouns: subject
    • Personal pronouns: direct object
    • Personal pronouns: indirect object
    • Order of object pronouns
    • Further information on object pronouns
    • Pronouns after prepositions
    • Possessive pronouns
    • Indefinite pronouns
    • Relative pronouns
    • Interrogative pronouns
    • Demonstrative pronouns
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    • Overview of verbs
    • The present tenses
    • The present simple tense
    • ser and estar
    • The present continuous tense
    • The imperative
    • Reflexive verbs
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    • The conditional
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  • Questions
    • Asking questions in Spanish
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    • How adverbs are used
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    • Common adverbs
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    • Using prepositions
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