Word
¿Qué sucedió?
Meaning
What happened?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about ¿Qué sucedió?
Why are there two question marks, including one upside down at the beginning?
Spanish uses both an opening question mark ¿ and a closing question mark ? around direct questions.
So:
¿Qué sucedió?
This helps the reader know from the start that the sentence is a question. In English, you only see that at the end.
Why does qué have an accent mark?
In a direct question, qué takes a written accent.
So in ¿Qué sucedió?, qué means what? as an interrogative word.
Compare:
- ¿Qué sucedió? = What happened?
- Lo que sucedió... = What happened... / That which happened...
In the second case, que has no accent because it is not being used as a question word.
How do you pronounce ¿Qué sucedió? in Spain?