French · Chapter 5 · Lesson 15 · Grammar primer
Question words
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
Quoi cannot open a question
Qui asks about people, que about things, and quoi is the form used after a preposition or at the end of a sentence. Quoi fais-tu is wrong: it is que fais-tu, or qu'est-ce que tu fais. In casual speech quoi does drift to the end, as in tu fais quoi, and that is fine spoken.
À quoi penses-tu?
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