How do you ask someone, "What's wrong?"

Question

If a person is yelling and you can't understand them, how do you say, "What's wrong?"

Hola y bienvenida a SpanishDict. Please remember to use proper capitalization, grammar, and punctuation when posting. :) Muchas gracias. - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 1, 2011

Nice question :) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Answer 1

You could say:

''¿Qué hay?'' = ''What's the matter?''

(I think this idiom/expression is used more in the north than the south of Spain)

''¿Cuál es el problema?'' = ''What is the problem?''

''¿'Qué pasa?'' = ''What's wrong? / ''What's the matter?''

You could even say:'' Lo siento si te he molestado'' = ''I'm sorry if I have upset you''

There maybe even better ways of expressing this so I would encourage you to wait for some native or advanced speakers to post responses.

Corregid mi español, por favor

¿Qué hay? is new to me. ¡Interesante! - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Gracias,, Guitar :) - FELIZ77, Jul 1, 2011

Thanks to Y O U Feliz :) :) :) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Answer 2

¿Qué te pica? = What's bothering you?

¿Qué te molesta? = What is bothering you?

¿Qué tienes en mente? = What is on your mind?

¿Cómo te sientes? = How do you feel?

Algo está volviéndote loco/ sacándote de quicio. ¿Qué es? = Something is driving you crazy. What is it?

¿Por qué tienes malas pulgas hoy? = Why are you so irritated/ cranky today?

I have a lot more if you want me to add some.

I hope this helps

I like ¿Qué te molesta? = What is bothering you? Are any of them rude, Guitar or likely to upset someone even more who is already angry? - FELIZ77, Jul 1, 2011

Probably the last one. Calling someone "cranky" would invite them to respond yelling "I'm not cranky!" :) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Other than that, I'm not really sure. I hope someone comes soon to correct me, that's the best I can do! ;) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Thank you Guitar :) If my response is also good would you please give me a vote ::) - FELIZ77, Jul 1, 2011

Sorry... for some reason, I was having trouble editing my posts and voting up. I guess it's just the webpage. By the way, porqué was a big mistake in my part. - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Sure Feliz :) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

...*on my part... (typo) - GuitarWarrior, Jul 1, 2011

Answer 3

¿Cuál es el problema? - What is the problem?

¿Qué pasa? - What's wrong?

¿Qué hice? - What did I do?

¡Eres/estás loco! - You're crazy Haha!

Welcome to SpanishDict!

It's cuál instead of qué in the first one, Sonrisa.:) - Deanski, Jul 1, 2011

Gracias! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 1, 2011

:) - FELIZ77, Jul 1, 2011

Eres loco isn´t ok, is Estas loco! - Driker, Jul 1, 2011

But wouldn't "crazy" be a part of one's personality? - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 1, 2011

I'm no expert, but from what I understand... both are right but mean different things. "Eres" would mean the person is truly crazy in general, "estas" means they're being crazy right now - Cyradis, Jul 1, 2011

Good explanation, Cyradis. That makes sense. Thanks :D - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 1, 2011

Answer 4

¿Qué pasa?