Who's there? Quin es?

What is your name? Cmo te llamas?

What is your mother's name? Cmo se llama tu
madre?
What is your father's name? Cmo se llama tu padre?
How do you spell your name? Cmo se escribe tu
nombre?
How are you? Cmo est?
Where are you from? De dnde viene?
Where do you live? Dnde vives?
Where were you born? Dnde naci usted?
How old are you? Cuntos aos tienes?
Do you have brothers or sisters? Tienes t hermanos o
hermanas?
Do you have any pets (animals) at home? Tiene usted
mascotas en casa?
How many people are in your family? Cuntas
personas hay en tu familia?
What is your telephone number? Cul es su nmero de
telfono?

What time is it? Qu hora es?
What day is it today? Qu da es hoy?
What day was yesterday? Qu da fue ayer?
What day is tomorrow? Qu da es maana?
What is the date? Cul es la fecha de hoy?
When do you eat lunch? A qu hora comes t el
almuerzo?
What's the weather like? Qu tiempo hace?

How many are there? Cunto hay?
How much is that? Cunto cuesta eso? or Cunto es?
What color is this? Qu color es?
What is your favorite color? Cul es tu color favorito?
What is this? Qu es esto?

Do you have any questions? Tiene algunas preguntas?
Do you understand? Entiende? or Comprende?
Can you repeat that, please? Me lo repite, por favor?
Do you speak English? Hablas ingls?

Where is it? Dnde est?
Where are you going? Adnde va usted?
Why is that? Y eso por qu?
Why not? Por qu no?
Whose is that? De quin es eso?
What would you like? Qu desea?
Can you help me please? Puede usted ayudarme, por
favor?
Where is the bathroom? Dnde est el bao?

Qu es eso? (What is that?)
Por qu fue a la ciudad? (Why did he go to the city?)
Qu es la capital del Per? (What is the capital of
Peru?)
Dnde est mi coche? (Where is my car?)

When the verb needs a subject other than the
interrogative, it follows the verb:
Por qu fue l a la ciudad? (Why did he go to the
city?)
Cuntos dlares tiene el muchacho? (How many
dollars does the boy have?)
As in English, questions can be formed in Spanish
without the interrogatives, although Spanish is more
flexible in its word order. In Spanish, the general form
is for the noun to follow the verb. The noun can either
appear immediately after the verb or appear later in
the sentence. In the following examples, either Spanish
question is a grammatically valid way of expressing the
English:
Va Pedro al mercado? Va al mercado Pedro? (Is
Pedro going to the market?)
Tiene que ir Roberto al banco? Tiene que ir al
banco Roberto? (Does Roberto have to go to the
bank?)
Sale Mara maana? Sale maana Mara? (Is
Mara leaving tomorrow?)
As you can see, Spanish doesn't require auxiliary verbs
the way that English does to form questions. The same
verb forms as are used in questions are used in
statements.
Also, as in English, a statement can be made into a
question simply by a change in intonation (the voice
tone) or, in writing, by adding question marks,
although it isn't particularly common. l es doctor.
He's a doctor. l es doctor? He's a doctor?
Finally, note that when only part of a sentence is a
question, in Spanish the question marks are placed
around only the portion that's a question:
Estoy feliz, y t? (I'm happy, are you?)
Si salgo, salen ellos tambin? (If I leave, are they
leaving too?)