que: Hi there, I'm taking French class. In my book, it translates all the following phrases: comment, que/qu', quel(le)(s), and quoi to "What." I can't find the difference between them. Could you give me a logic answer so I'd understand their difference? Thank You|||comment only means 'what' when someone says something and you don't get, i.e., an informal way of saying 'pardon me, what was that you said'. so this is never part of a sentence. in a sentence, comment means 'how'. quel(le)(s) mean 'which, which one, what one, what kind of', and in english we sometimes use 'what' in a related sense, e.g., 'what languages do you speak' = 'which languages do you speak' = vous parlez quelles langues? this happens when the words in question (including 'what' and quel) appear before a noun. quoi and que/qu' mean 'what' when used in a sentence and not followed by a noun, and the difference has to do with the combinations with other words and order of words, f.ex., que sais-je 'what do i know?' but je sais quoi. i have not thought about this but i think que has to be appear at the beginning of a sentence before a verb. otherwise you use quoi, including after a preposition, e.g., avec quoi 'with what', sans quoi 'without what', etc. moreover this use of que is quite rare and usually literary. you don't normally say que veux-tu but rather qu'est-ce que tu veux, so they should really have taught you qu'est-ce que as yet another word for 'what' and also qu'est-ce qui. the differrence between these two is that qu'est-ce qui is used as the subject, e.g., qu;est-ce qui arrive 'what is happening' and qu'est-ce que as the object, as already shown. any more questions, please ask.|||hi, have a look at this video http://www.frenchspanishonline.com/magaz鈥?/a> about questions in French if you are in London, French lessons at http://www.lsfrench.com