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Old February 16, 2013, 07:53 PM
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"What do you look like?"

I know that if you want to say "you look like a doctor" you'd say "pareces como un doctor", but if I want to say "what do you look like?", would that be said in the same way? "qué pareces como?"

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Old February 16, 2013, 08:32 PM
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Actually, "Parece doctor" is "You look like a doctor."
In the question "What do you look like?" you're asking about a person's characteristics, so the phrase is "¿Cómo es?"
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¿A quien te pareces?

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¿Que pareces?
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Old February 16, 2013, 11:32 PM
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¿Qué aspecto tiene?

¿Qué imagen es la que da?

¿A qué se parece?

¿A quién se parece?
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