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Old September 29, 2010, 06:48 PM
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¿Cuál o Qué?

En mi clase de español, aprendemos sobre pronombres interrogativos, como 'qué' o 'cuantós'. Mi maestra de español dijo que usas 'Qué' cuando la reacción es de un grupo prevista (e.g. ¿Qué día es hoy? Sabes que la reacción es una día). Ella dijo que usas 'cuál' cuando no sabes de qué grupo es la reacción. Este comprendo, pero mi otro maestra (de la año pasado) dijo que les usas en la otro camino. Ahora confundo . ¿En cuál camino uso?

Sé hay muchos faltas en mi post. Corrígelos, por favor .

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Old September 29, 2010, 08:29 PM
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En mi clase de español, aprendimos sobre los pronombres interrogativos, tales como 'qué' o 'cuántos'. Mi maestra de español dijo que se usa 'Qué' cuando la reacción es de un grupo previsto (e.g. ¿Qué día es hoy? Se sabe que la reacción es una día). Ella dijo que se usa 'cuál' cuando no se sabe de qué grupo es la reacción. Esto comprendo, pero mi otra maestra (del año pasado) dijo que se los usa de otra manera. Ahora estoy confundido . ¿En qué manera los uso?

que hay muchos errores en mi post. Corrígelos, por favor .
Corrections above, but I couldn't understand what you were trying to say in a couple of spots.

I haven't ever heard or learned the 'guidelines' you've been taught.
There are good answers to your question here, here, or here.

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Old September 29, 2010, 08:59 PM
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Yeah, it was a streach for me to try to convey what I meant in my rudimentary Spanish. Basically, my teacher said that you use Qué when you know that the response is going to be a certain type of answer. Like when asking 'What day is it?', you know the response is going to be one of the 7 days of the weeks. Cuál, she said, is used for the opposite, as in asking for a phone number, the answer can be any number. Does it really matyer? I completely forgot to search for previous threads on this , so I will take a look at those. Thanks for the corrections! Most of those things I have already been taught, i just forfet to use.
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There are a lot of threads that differentiate the two, but I found some websites that give the same answers. Have a look at them and see if they answer your questions.
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Those websites cleared everything up! Thanks once again!
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