Question Frame
Are we asking or stating?
意味
A frame that turns a thought into a request for information, confirmation, choice, identity, reason, place, time, or manner.
見分け方
Find the element that makes the sentence a question: word order, question word, particle, intonation.
例
who|what|where|when|why|how|do
where are you|do you know|is it ready
Where do you live?
Visual guide
QUESTION FRAME signal + thought + ? where + you live + ? = answer wanted Not a plain statement Ask: asking or stating?
Question signals can vary: Word: where are you? Order: is it ready? Do: do you know? Particle: ready Q? Tone: ready↗
言語別ビュー
母語では
Questions often keep normal word order and add か or use intonation in casual speech.
どこに住んでいますか。
Where do you live?
学習中の言語では
Yes/no questions often use هل or أ, and information questions use question words with mostly stable word order.
هل تفهمُ الدرس؟
Do you understand the lesson?
Learners may rely only on intonation or place question words unnaturally.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.