怎么【zěnme】

怎么 asks by what method something is done. It goes in front of the verb.

Putting it after the verb – nǐ你qù去xué xiào学校zěn me怎幺 – is wrong. 怎么 modifies the verb, and modifiers come first.

The questions a learner uses every day

怎么说, 怎么读, 怎么走 and 怎么办 do more work than almost anything else at this level.

怎么 also asks why

With a tone of surprise, 怎么 asks how something came to be the case. 为什么 asks for a reason plainly; 怎么 implies the speaker did not expect it.

怎么 against 怎么样

怎么 asks about method, 怎么样 about what something is like.