• 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 :)