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There are several ways to ask questions in French:

I. Raise the pitch of your voice at the end of any normal sentence (familiar)
Tu danses ? You dance?
     
II.  Add the tag n'est-ce pas to the end of the sentence (familiar)
Tu danses, n'est-ce pas ?    You dance, right?
III.  Put est-ce que at the beginning of any sentence (formal/familiar)
Est-ce que tu danses ? Do you dance?
     
IV.  Use inversion: invert the verb and subject pronoun, join by a hyphen (formal/familiar)
Danses-tu ? Do you dance?

Note when using inversion: if you are using the third person singular (il or elle) and the verb ends in e, you have to add -t- between the verb and subject pronoun:

Aime-t-il les films ? - Does he like movies?

These are all yes/no questions. For other questions, you need to use one of the following:

Interrogative pronouns (qui/que/quoi)
Interrogative adjectives (quel/quelles)
Interrogative words (quand, oł, etc.)