Galician Questions

Galician Questions

If you're trying to learn Galician Questions you will find some useful resources including a course about Questions and interrogative expressions... to help you with your Galician grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Galician. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

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Galician Questions

Learning the Galician Questions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Galician language. But first we need to know what the role of Questions is in the structure of the grammar in Galician.

Galician questions may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. Usually it starts with why, how, where, when ...

Grammar Tips:

In Galician there are 4 ways of asking a question to get a yes or no answer, and they are the following:

-Verb + pronoun: Unlike English, the auxiliaries do and does are not used. ¿Ten ela tempo libre? (Does she have free time?)

-Pronoun + verb: Only the intonation makes the sentence interrogative: ¿Ela ten tempo libre? (Does she have free time?)

-Verb +...+ pronoun. The pronoun goes last ¿Ten tempo libre (ela)? (Does she have free time?)

-Finally you can also make a question by adding a tag question to the end of a statement. Ela ten tempo libre, ¿non?

Ela ten tempo libre, ¿verdade? (She has free time, doesn’t she)


Here are some examples:

English QuestionsGalician Questions
QuestionsPreguntas
how?Como?
what?o que?
who?quen?
why?Por que?
where?onde?

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Questions in Galician has a logical pattern. Locate the Questions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Galician.

List of Questions in Galician

Below is a list of the Questions and interrogative expressions in Galician placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Galician vocabulary.

English QuestionsGalician Questions
where is he?Onde está?
what is this?que é iso?
why are you sad?Por que está triste?
how do you want to pay?Como quere pagar?
can I come?podo entrar?
is he sleeping?está durmindo?
do you know me?vostede me coñece?
do you have my book?tes o meu libro?
how big is it?quão grande é isto?
can I help you?Podo axudar?
can you help me?que me pode axudar?
do you speak English?Vostede fala inglés?
how far is this?quão lonxe é isto?
what time is it?Que horas son?
how much is this?Canto é isto?
what is your name?Cal é o seu nome?
where do you live?Onde vive?

Questions and interrogative expressions have a very important role in Galician, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Galician Questions, you might want to check the rest of our Galician lessons here: Learn Galician. Don't forget to bookmark this page.

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