1. Est-ce que…? Qu’est-ce que…?
How to ask different types of questions in French

2. Yes/No Questions
You can use inflection to raise your voice at the end (simplest + least formal)
Tu aimes manger les escargots? (You like to eat snails?)
You can use inversion to switch the subject and conjugated verb (easy + common)
Aimes-tu manger les escargots? (Do you like to eat snails?)
You can use Est-ce que or Est-ce qu’ (formal)
Est-ce que/qu’ means “Isn’t it that…?”  use qu’ in front of vowels*
Est-ce que tu aimes manger les escargots? (Isn’t it that you like to eat snails?)
Est-ce qu’il* aime manger les escargots? (Isn’t it that he likes to eat snails?)

3. Combining Est-ce que with question words
Place the question word before est-ce que followed by the statement in a normal order
Où (Where)
Où est-ce que tu voyages cet été? (Where are you traveling this summer?)
Je voyage en Europe. (I’m traveling in Europe.)
Quand (When)
Quand est-ce que tu voyages en Europe? (When are you traveling in Europe?)
Je voyage en Europe en juin.

4. Open-ended Questions
Some questions require more than just oui/non for an answer
You can place Qu’est-ce que/Qu’est-ce qu’ in front of a declarative sentence
Que + est-ce que  que becomes qu’ in front of vowel
Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire après l’école? (What do you like to do after school?)
Qu’est-ce qu’elle aime faire après l’école? (What does she like to do after school?)
Faire=to do / to make

5. Open-ended questions
You can shorten qu’est-ce que to que / qu’ and use inversion
Que/qu’ will go at the beginning of the sentence
Qu’aimes-tu faire? (What do you like to do?)
Que manges-tu? (What are you eating?)
Que fais-tu? (What are you doing?)
Sometimes you see a “t” between the conjugated verb and the subject pronouns il/elle/on and ils/elles
Qu’aime-t-il faire? (What does he like to do?) (kem-teel-fair)
The “t” helps separate the sounds

6. Open-ended questions add QUOI to the end of a sentence
Tu aimes faire quoi? (What do you like to do)
Tu fais quoi? (What are you doing?)
Il mange quoi? (What is he eating?)
Tu veux manger quoi? (What do you want to eat?)
Tu veux faire quoi?

7. Conjugation of FAIRE Faire = to do / to make (infinitive form)
je fais nous faisons
tu fais vous faites
il/elle/on fait ils/elles font
Faire les devoirs = to do homework
Faire dodo = to take a nap
Faire la grasse matinée = to sleep in
Faire le ménage = to do housework