In Spanish, question marks (signos de interrogación) indicate that a sentence or clause is a direct question.

Unlike the English question mark, Spanish always uses both an opening (¿) and a closing (?) question mark at the beginning and end of the question. For example:

If the question is part of a larger sentence, the question marks come at the beginning and end of the part that is interrogative:

However, if the part of the sentence that is not included in the question comes after the interrogative part, the closing question mark comes after it, that is, at the end of the sentence.

Additionally, the first word after the opening question mark is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of the sentence.

Although questions marks and full stops cannot be used at the same time, exclamation marks can be freely combined with question marks to show surprise at the same time as asking a question. Either mark can come at the beginning or end of the question, or they can both appear together in either order.