Asking Questions

The vocabulary for this lesson:

ka
question maker

dare
who
nan
what

doko
where
yasai
vegetable

oishii
delicious

To ask a question in English, you need to word your sentence in different ways to make it sound like a question. With Japanese however, all you have to do is add "ka" to a statement to make it a question, as in the example below:

Yasai wa oishii desu.
The vegetables are delicious.
Yasai wa oishii desu ka.
Are the vegetables delicious?

You don't have to reword the sentence, all you need to do is add "ka" to the end. The words for what, where, and who are nan, doko, and dare respectively. See how these words can be used below:

Nan desu ka.
What is it? What is this?
Doko desu ka.
Where is it?
(Anata wa) dare desu ka?
Who are you?
Toukyou wa doko desu ka.
Where is Tokyo?

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