How is que used in real life?

Que is one of the most commonly used words in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. It is a multifunctional word, signifying everything from “that” and “which” to “what” or “whom.”

Que can be found in foreign expressions, notably the pseudo-Spanish phrase Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), performed by Doris Day in Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much.

One Spanish construction familiar to some English speakers is Que + an adjective, (which means “How” + adjective). Que guapo! means “How handsome!,” for instance.

que preciosoooo! Namjoon, you have to see this! @BTS_twt 💜 pic.twitter.com/QEWpKIdE01 — 𝒓 𝒐 𝒙 𝒚 ⁷ (@namjoonhoney) October 8, 2018

Que also appears in the Spanish Que tal? and Que pasa? These are common greetings along the lines of “What’s up?”

Que is part of the French construction, qu’est-ce-que, a very convoluted way of saying “what.”

Note that Que. is an abbreviation for the Canadian province of Québec. The shortened ‘que sometimes refers to barbecue too.

More examples of que:

“When a salesman asks him for what he wants, for lack of English, he can’t reply; so the salesman, for lack of Spanish, takes him around from one department to another, to shirts, ties, jackets, and finally to hosiery, whereupon the customer exclaims, ¡Eso sí que es! [Yes, that’s it!]”

—Eleanor G. Cotton & John M. Sharp in Spanish Loanwords in the English Language, 1996