About Que

Question

¿Cuánto tiempo hay que esperar? How long is the wait? I want to ask you why in this sentence Que is used while we could use El or La for (The) not Que and I saw in many other sentences they use Que most than (The). Can you give me more information about Que and its uses ? Tell me a website which I can watch Spanish conversation completely not Youtube because it does not have enough different conversations like English conversations. Thank you

Hi and welcome to the forum. - francobollo, Dec 30, 2012

I edited your question for proper grammar and punctuation. We have English learners here too. - francobollo, Dec 30, 2012

Thanks, Franco! - --Mariana--, Dec 30, 2012

Answer 1

The actual translation would be: How long/how much time do you have to wait? HAY QUE = you have to

Whenever you say 'you have to' always use hay que OR tienes que (more specific to one person).

Que literally means 'what' or 'that'. In questions it means what and in sentences it means that.

You can also use it for exclamations e.g. Que linda eres tu! - How pretty are you / do you look!

Type in que in the search bar and you'll find a million more uses for this word!

Good answer! - francobollo, Dec 30, 2012