The word order inside a sentence in Amharic is different than in English. Generally the verb goes at the end of the sentence and the structure is: Subject / Object / Verb.
For example:

If we now add an adjective to the sentence, it will go before the object:

Questions:

In the case of a question, when it anticipates a “yes” or “no” answer, the sentence is  formed in the same way (Subject / Object / Verb) an only the intonation changes: 

Another way to build this type of question is adding the word wäy after the verb and also using the intonation of a question:

There is another kind of questions that ask for specific information and that use a word like “who”, “what” or “where”. These type of words usually go before the verb and the the verb is “to be” they are written as an only word:

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