What does the upside-down question mark mean?

Question

why in the spanish languange there is upsidedown question mark before the sentence? what does it mean

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It just denotes the start of a question in Spanish, kind of like we put quotation marks at each end of quotation to very explicitly denote the extents of the quotation.

Note that in Spanish, in a question like He asked,, where do I go? The two types of question markets would bracket the "where do I go" portion, not the whole sentence.

hope that helps Roger

Answer 3

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In the Spanish language, is there and upside-down question mark before the sentence? What does it mean?

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