Information questions: inversion questions with question words | French

Starter quiz

Match the French and English.
- arriver
  
  ⇔
  
  to arrive, arriving ✓
- changer
  
  ⇔
  
  to change, changing ✓
- créer
  
  ⇔
  
  to create, creating ✓
- gagner
  
  ⇔
  
  to win, winning ✓
- habiter
  
  ⇔
  
  to live, living ✓
Le verbe 'faire'. Match the French and the English.
- je fais
  
  ⇔
  
  I do ✓
- tu fais
  
  ⇔
  
  you do (sing) ✓
- elle fait
  
  ⇔
  
  she does ✓
- nous faisons
  
  ⇔
  
  we do ✓
- vous faites
  
  ⇔
  
  you do (pl) ✓
- ils font
  
  ⇔
  
  they do (m) ✓
What is a closed question?
- Any question which can be answered with only yes or no. ✓
- Any question with raised intonation at the end.
- Any question which can be answered with anything other than yes or no.
- An exclamation.
What is an information question?
- Any question which can be answered with only yes or no.
- Any question with raised intonation at the end.
- Any question which can be answered with anything other than yes or no. ✓
- An exclamation.
Change this statement into a question using inversion: 'tu comprends la question.'
- 'Comprends-tu la question ?' ✓
Translate into English: 'A-t-elle un chien ?'
- 'Does she have a dog?' ✓

Which words have the [ai] sound?
- raison ✓
- animal
- naissance ✓
- train
- mauvais ✓
Match the French and the English.
- les maths
  
  ⇔
  
  maths ✓
- la musique
  
  ⇔
  
  music ✓
- les sciences
  
  ⇔
  
  science ✓
- la langue
  
  ⇔
  
  language ✓
- la matière
  
  ⇔
  
  subject ✓
- parce que
  
  ⇔
  
  because ✓
Choose the correct question word: 'Comment vas-tu ?'
- why
- when
- how ✓
- what
- where
Change 'quel' to its feminine form.
- 'quelle' ✓
This is Antoine DuPont. Answer for him: 'quel est ton prénom ?'
- 'Antoine' ✓
Put the words in order to form an information question.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  quand
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  vas
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  -
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  tu
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  sortir
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  ?

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The SSC (sound-symbol correspondence) [ai] is pronounced as in 'vrai'.
The question word 'quel' (meaning which) matches the gender of the noun: 'quel' (m) and 'quelle' (f).
To form a yes/no question in French, we can use inversion; swap the verb and the pronoun: comprends-tu ?
To form an information question in French, we can use inversion with a question word: combien comprends-tu ?

Like other question words in French, 'quel' does not change based on the gender of the noun.

Unlike other question words in French, 'quel' does change based on the gender of the noun, it becomes 'quelle' in the feminine form.

[ai] - SSC (sound-symbol correspondence) pronounced as in ‘vrai’
Information question - question starting with a wh- word that has more information in the answer than yes/no
Quel, quelle - question word meaning ‘which’ in the masculine then feminine form
Inversion - when the subject pronoun and the verb switch place to form a question