Question Frame
Are we asking or stating?
Znaczenie
A frame that turns a thought into a request for information, confirmation, choice, identity, reason, place, time, or manner.
Jak to rozpoznać
Find the element that makes the sentence a question: word order, question word, particle, intonation.
Przykłady
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↗
Widok językowy
W języku ojczystym
Yes/no questions often use czy or intonation; wh-questions use question words.
Czy masz czas?
Q you-have time?
W języku docelowym
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.