• IWantToFuckSpez
      14•8 months ago

      Not really. In my language subject and verb get switched around in a question. So you immediately know it’s a question when you start reading the sentence.

        • IWantToFuckSpez
          3•8 months ago

          • Hij schreef een bericht. (He wrote a message)

          • Schreef hij een bericht? (Did he wrote a message?)

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
          1•8 months ago

          I know you already got it but a few others came to my mind:

          Finnish, which not a tonal language:

          • Sinä pidät kahvista. (“You like coffee.”)
          • Pidätkö kahvista? (“You like coffee?”)

          Japanese:

          • Anata wa kōhī ga sukidesu. (“You like coffee.”)
          • Kōhī wa sukidesu ka? (“You like coffee?”)

          I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.

          • @Anamana@feddit.de
            2•8 months ago

            Yeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)