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- "J'aime laquelle ?"
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"laquelle" or "lequel" can translate "which one".
The subject of the verb "aime" can be a man or a woman, the question is about the object "which one", that can be masculine or feminine.
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il y a un choix de couleurs (feminine); j'aime laquelle ?
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il y a un choix de chapeaux (masculine); j'aime lequel ?
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Lequel and laquelle refer to the singular choice not the plural colors (in this example)
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except when they would. imagine someone being teased that they like a particularly ugly item of clothing at the store. they reply indredulously and indignantly, "i like WHICH one?"
That is the most formal expression, but it needs a tiny change: "laquelle aimé-je ?" with an acute accent on the -e ending of aime, so that it is "pronounceable". However, this form is not very much in use (because of the sound of it, I suspect), so we generally use either the standard form: "laquelle est-ce que j'aime ?" or the casual form: "laquelle j'aime ?" or "j'aime laquelle ?".
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(This is what my teacher taught me about posing a question in French):
There are 3 ways we can use to ask a question. For example, you want to ask "Is he a boy?": 1. Est-il un garçon? Simply like English. 2. Il est un garçon? This is less formal and is often used while speaking. It's like asking "He is a boy?" in English. Notice the difference in intonation. 3. Est-ce qu'il est un garçon? Now, this is the sentence #2 with "est-ce que" at the beginning. According to my teacher, the French add this to the question in order to "make sure" that it IS a question. Moreover, when you use "est-ce que", you don't have to switch the position of "il" and "est", so it does not require a lot of thinking of how to pose the question when you choose to ask this way.
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If you are learning French-for-English-Speakers, then bad English is just as relevant as bad French.
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There is no clue as to gender except the ''la'' and that is mis-spoken as ''le''. Pardonne mon fouillis.
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This is not necessarily true,I like which one is perfectly acceptable as a qustion in'proper' English
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without punctuation to indicate tell me if the following is a question or not......''You've already spent all that money .''