mephila03

[earnest ledge]

Please be patient

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[restive lake]

Just as a refresher, there are three ways of asking a question in French:
(1) The formal way: Inversion
You reverse the subject and the conjugated verb, adding -t- if it's a third person singular not ending with a consonant and/or repeating the subject pronoun if it's a noun.
Le professeur arrive => Le professeur arrive-t-il ?
Anne a pleuré => Pourquoi Anne a-t-elle pleuré ?
(2) The neutral way: Est-ce que
You just add « est-ce que » before the subject, eliding if it's required.
Le professeur arrive => Est-ce que le professeur arrive ?
Anne a pleuré => Pourquoi est-ce qu'Anne a pleuré ?
(3) The informal way: intonation
You just add a rising tone at the end of the sentence. Do note that for question words they tend to stay the end instead of moving to the front.
Le professeur arrive => Le professeur arrive ?
Anne a pleuré => Anne a pleuré pourquoi ?

Read this article for more info. Hope this helps.