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.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Can you give me an example?

Edit: Ok thanks guys, I got it :D

[–] araozu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe

I do like cats
Do I like cats?

but taken to the extreme?

[–] aka_oscar 4 points 1 year ago

Can you give me an example - Question

You can give me an example - Affirmation

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hij schreef een bericht. (He wrote a message)
Schreef hij een bericht? (Did he wrote a message?)

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zeg eens, waarom wil je zo graag met een CEO slapen?

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck Spez daarom

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh. Very good point. I did not know that either.

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