Que importa? = why does it matter?

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Que importa? = why does it matter?

No me importa ni un grano. ¿Qué importa? - 0074b507, Oct 27, 2011

Answer 1

Did anyone else have some thoughts on this? Bump

Answer 2

You can use 'que' without the accent in a statement to mean 'that':

Eso es lo único que importa, that's all that matters

The interrogative (or question) form on the other hand needs the accent qué.

I've seen ¿Qué importa? translated as What's the deal?

Often importa is used with an indirect object such as in the following to show who it matters to:

¿A quién le importa? Who cares? (ie To whom does it matter?)

No me importa lo que piense. I don't care what he thinks. (Ie Not to me it matters what he thinks.)

¿Qué te importa más? What matters more (to you)?

Or just as 'does it matter' you can use 'importa' without the indirect object such as this example - ¿Por qué importa la muerte de las lenguas indígenas?

You could be right that ¿Qué importa? is a shortened form that gets used and a native speaker will be better answering that but in the meantime I would tend to use ¿Por qué ...? which means Why ..... ¿Por qué importa? or ¿Por qué es importante?