| 14.5 Interrogative adverbs |
There is a chapter for interrogative clauses, however, the interrogative adverbs are the following:
| Interrogative adverbs | |
| Pourquoi? = Why? | |
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Pourquoi est-ce que tu n' as pas demandé? |
| Why did you not ask? | |
| Comment? = How? | |
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Comment tu le sais? |
| How do you know? | |
| Où? = Where? | |
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Où est-ce qu' il est ? |
| Where is he? | |
| Quand? = When? | |
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Quand est-ce qu' il vient ? |
| When does he come? | |
| Combien? = how many? how much? | |
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Combien de* pommes restent dans le panier? |
| How many apples are still in the basket? | |
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A combien de* personnes a-t-il donné une pomme? |
| To how many people has he given an apple? | |
* Adverbs asking for a quantity use de instead of du, de la, des.
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