In English, we learned that there are Wh- questions: questions that start with letters wh that we use to ask more detailed questions than we can't by simply making inversion of words in sentences.

We can say for example: Bist du ein Lehrer? ----> Are you a teacher?

but that's the limit of information that we can get with this type of questions - is something that we are asking about true or false

We may want to know why somebody is a teacher, when did he become a teacher and a lot of other questions can come to our minds. For those reasons, it is good to learn Wh-words in German. They don't start with letters wh in German, but they all still start with W.

There are 8 of them:

1. Wo - where
2. Woher -where from
3. Wohin - where to
4. Wann - when
5. Was - what
6. Wer - who
7. Wie - how
8. Warum - why

The only thing that may be weird here is that we use 3 different types of where - it's just that in German they don't add prepositions from/to, but they have question words that already mean that.

Here I will share examples for each question word:

1. Wo bist du jetzt? -----> Where are you now?

Ich bin zu Hause. ------> I am at home.

1. Woher kommst du? ------> Where do you come from?

Ich komme aus Spanien. -------> I come/am from Spain.

1. Wohin gehst du? -----> Where are you going?

Ich gehe ins Kino. ------> I am going to the cinema.

1. Wann kommst du züruck? -----> When are you coming back?

Morgen denke ich. -------> I think tomorrow.

1. Was machst du? ------> What are you doing?

Ich mache eine Torte. ------> I am making a cake.

1. Wer ist dieser Mann? -----> Who is this man?

Er ist mein Vater. -------> He is my father.

1. Wie geht's dir? -----> How are you doing?

Es geht mir gut, danke. -------> I am fine, thank you.

1. Warum bist du gestern in der Schule nicht gegangen? ------> Why didn't you go to school yesterday?

Ich war krank. -------> I was sick.