Quel est ton film préféré?

to be

Breakdown of Quel est ton film préféré?

• ton: your
• le film: the movie
• préféré: favorite

Questions & Answers about Quel est ton film préféré?

Why is it quel and not quoi at the beginning of the sentence?

In French, quel is an interrogative adjective that must be followed by a noun (or être + noun/adjective). It agrees in gender and number with that noun.

• Quel = which / what (followed by a noun)
  
  • Quel film = which/what film
• Quoi = what (used mostly after prepositions or at the end of a question)
  
  • Tu parles de quoi ? = What are you talking about?

In Quel est ton film préféré ?, quel is used because it refers to film, a masculine singular noun (implied in the structure quel est [noun]). Using quoi here would be ungrammatical.

Why is it quel est and not just quel or something like qu’est-ce que?