Latin B2: Asking indirectly: indirect questions · Phrases

A question inside another sentence keeps its question word but puts the verb in the subjunctive: Quid facis? (direct) → Rogo quid facias (I ask what you are doing). Whether is num or -ne; whether… or is utrum… an. The tense follows the main verb: Rogavi quid faceres (I asked what you were doing); Nescio quid fecerit (I don’t know what he did).

• quis — who?
• quid — what?
• cur — why?
• ubi — where?
• quando — when?
• quomodo — how?
• utrum… an — whether… or
• nescire — not to know

• Nescio quid dicam. — I don’t know what to say.
• Dic mihi ubi habites. — Tell me where you live.
• Rogavit quis essem. — He asked who I was.
• Quis sit, nemo scit. — Nobody knows who he is.