There is a question in one of the tests. Where is qui is not accepted as the answer . Why so?
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richa j.Kwiziq community member
There is a question in one of the tests. Where is qui is not accepted as the answer . Why so?
The question is pasted below. Why the answer should be Qu'est-ce qui and not qui while in the lesson both are used interchangably.
____________________vous avez envie de revoir ?
Who[m] do you want to see again?
This question relates to:French lesson "Qui/Qui est-ce que ... ? = Whom ... ? (French Questions)"
Asked 6 years ago
Hi Richa,
there are three ways to ask a question in French.
Here they all are using your sentence as an example:
1) Qui est-ce que vous avez envie de revoir ? -- using "est-ce que"
2) Vous avez envie de revoir qui ? -- using intonation
3) Qui avez-vous envie de revoir ? -- using inversion
You see that if you want to use "qui" without "est-ce que", you need to use the inverted form (the third one) to ask your question, which is different from what the test expects you to answer.
Hence only the first form can be correct.
-- Chris (not a native speaker).
richa j.Kwiziq community member
I am sorry i made a mistake in my question, i meant 'Qui est-ce que' and not Qu'est-ce qui.
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