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  We use these adjectives to ask for information or stress an opinion, and we always place them before the modified noun. Do not confuse them with the relative pronouns "que" and "cuanto" (the interrogative adjectives carry an accent mark). You must follow the number and gender agreement rules with "cuánto", but they do not apply to "qué".

Interrogative adjectives
Singular
Plural
¿qué?
¿qué?
what? which?
¿cuánto(m)?,
cuánta(f)?
¿cuántos(m)?,
¿cuántas(f)?
how much?,
how many?

- ¿Qué hora es?  (What time is it?)
- ¿Qué color me dijiste? (What color did you tell me?)
- ¿Qué números elegiste? (what numbers did you select?)
- ¿Qué te gusta leer?  (What do you like to read?)
- ¿Cuánto dinero tienes? (How much money do you have?)
- ¿Cuánta comida tengo que preparar? (How much food do I have to prepare?)
- ¿Cuántas personas vienen a comer? (How many people are coming to eat?)
- ¿Cuántos días tiene el año? (How many days does a year have?)

Pay attention:


 Interrogative adjectives may be preceded by a preposition:

- ¿A qué hora es la clase? (At what time is the class?)
- ¿De cuántas personas estamos hablando? (How many people are we talking    about?)
- ¿Con cuánto dinero viajarás? (How much money you will travel with?

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  Exclamatory adjectives have the same form as the interrogative adjectives, and we use them to add intensity to exclamations:

- ¡Qué día mas hermoso! (What a (most) beautiful day!
- ¡Mira qué mirada que tiene esa chica! (Look at (how intense) her stare!
- ¡Cuánta pobreza hay en el mundo! (How much poverty there is in the world.)


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