Qui  in this example is the subject of the clause. If you used que, You would deprive the sentence of its subject.

That works only if the first vowel is "e", not "i".

Qui est là?  (no liaison between qui and est, because of the "i")
Qu'est-ce que tu as fait? (liaison between que and est, because of "e").

In French there is no “like” as in English. Something doesn’t smell like chocolate, it just “smells chocolate”. Sounds weird, right.

Ça sent le chocolat — That smells like chocolate. 

That helps a lot!  I had no idea before! Thanks Caroline

The literal translation is: What is it that is pleasant to you at Anna?

In the subordinate clause, the subject is qu'est-ce qui (what) and the indirect object is te (to you).

Thanks so much for your help Chris! Much appreciated. 

Qui est-ce-que= Whom?                                                                                                                                

Eg:

Qui est-ce qui fait la biologie? Who does Biology.                                      Qui est-ce qui ma prof? Who is my teacher?                                              Qui est-ce que vous avez vu? Whom did you see?                                      Qui est-ce qu'elle a vu? Whom did she see?                                          Qu'est-ce qui= What?                                                                         

In this case, what is the subject and performs the verb                              Qu'est-ce que=What?                                                                              In this case what is the object and the recipient of the verb.                      Eg:

Qu'est-ce qui fait ce bruit? What is making that noise?                              Qu'est-ce qui m'a fait peur? What scared me?                                            Qu'est-ce que tu as vu? What did you see?                                                Qu'est-ce que vouz avez pris? What did you take?

It does. Thanks Cecile! 

Thanks.i hope I remember this! 

This phrase is the one that I am confused by: 

Qu'est-ce qui te manque le plus ?

Que of qu'est-ce qui means I'm talking about a thing.  Qui means the what is the subject of the verb... the confusing part to me is that the subject of the verb seems to be "you" of you miss the most.  That missing is the verb and whatever is missed would be the object of the verb?  In that sense I don't understand yet why qui is used.  thank you.

so I think it would be very helpful if the reversed structures using verbs manquer or plaire part of this lesson, were explained in more detail.

This is covered at the end of the lesson with just this comment but no real explanation or breakdown:  You will find this structure with a lot of "reversed" expressions, such plaire, manquer, etc.. - so we see it but it's not explained.  Just my feedback as a user...  thank you.

Not certain why this question would be so out of context since it related to an existing thread where it seemed everyone was confused. The foucs practice would ask the test taker to choose between Qu'est-ce qui and Qu'est-ce que....

hello , 

to me you don't choose between "qu'est ce qui " and "qu'est ce que " but "qui " and "que  ("est-ce que" is only a formula to ask a standard question) , with two different questions words "que" (what ) and "qui" (who ) , "qu'est-ce qui" is another kind of structure more idiomatic , and to put these two questions in the same level seems to me inaccurate.

Hi Aurélie, 

Thanks for that. May I know where we can access this gapfill exercise? I tried doing a search for it in the website search box & looking up the FAQs, but to no avail. 

Many thanks!

Thanks Aurélie - much appreciated!! 

Actually, in this case it really means "about Anne" and not about Anne's home. The little word "chez" can also stand for "about" and "among" in some contexts.

Chez lui c'est une obsession. -- With him it's an obsession.

Chez les Français on parle français. -- Among the French one speaks French.

Just when you thought things were simple....

-- Chris (not a native speaker).

Hello Chris , brilliant French by the way , impressive ! One comment though , I find confusing to put "qu'est ce qui"  and " qu'est ce que ", because your direct object(question word)  in the latter is not "que " per se but "qu' "! Actually the "que" you allude to is just a part of the formula to ask a standard question in French (est-ce que), hence my confusion.  

What would be the most helpful would be an exercise with 10-20 questions where I was asked to select between Qu'est-ce que and Qu-est-ce qui. That is really the question - will I be able to select the right one in the right situation. 

Are there any focused exercises like this anywhere in Kwiziq? I heard there were but I haven't managed to find them.

Bonjour Suzanne,

While I know the grammar explanation to your question, the simplest way that I have found to remember the difference is this:

qu'est-ce que is usually followed by a noun subject

qu'est-ce qui is usually followed by a verb

While I understand this is an over-simplification, the structure in a phrase almost always is like this.