You can easily form Spanish questions by changing your voice intonation, adding a tag phrase to a sentence, or inverting the order of the subject and verb. Here’s how.
Intonation is by far the easiest way to ask a question in Spanish. If you’re speaking, all you need to do is raise your voice at the end of what was a statement and add an imaginary question mark at the end of your thought. When writing, you just write down your thought and put question marks before and after it: ¿Ud. quiere tomar algo? (Do you want to drink something?) It’s that simple.
The tags ¿No es verdad? and ¿Está bien? can have a variety of meanings:
You generally place ¿No es verdad? or ¿Está bien? at the end of a statement — especially when “yes” is the expected answer:
Inversion is the most complicated of these three methods. Very basically speaking, you switch the word order of the subject (whether it’s a noun or pronoun) and its accompanying verb form. Keep these things in mind:
