Genki 20-4 Questions within Larger Sentences

Genki 20-4 Questions within Larger Sentences

You can include a question as part of a longer sentence and express ideas such as "I don't know when the test is" and "I don't remember whether Mary came to the party."

Quoted question clauses are in short forms. Note that the clause ends with the question particle か when it contains a question word like だれ and なに, as in the first two examples, and that it ends with　かどうか when it does not contain such a question word, as in the third example.

山下先生は昨日なにを食べたか覚えていません

Professor Yamashita does not remember what he ate yesterday.

メアリーさんがどこに住んでいるか知っていますか。

Do you know where Mary lives?

週末、りょうこうに行くかどうかきめしましょう

Let's decide whether we will go on a trip this weekend.

Question-word question か

Yes/no question かどう

わかりません - don't know

しっています - do know

The present tense short form だ which is used with a な adjective or a noun at the end of a clause is usually dropped.

だれがいちばんじょうずか　わかりません

instead of

だれがいちばんじょうずだか わかりません

I don't know who is the best.

おわり