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When the word qué (with an accent) is accompanied by a question mark, you can use it in different forms.

In a question, qué with the accent mark usually means “what,” but it can also mean “which.” For example: ¿Qué lugar es más bonito, el restaurante o el cine? How old is Doris? In a question, qué with the accent mark usually means “what,” but it can also mean “which.” For example: ¿Qué lugar es más bonito, el restaurante o el cine? What genre is que sera sera? READ: How do you find equivalent expressions? Is Doris Day alive? “ whatever happens, happens ” (more literally “whatever will be, will be”) Ostensibly employed to express a personal philosophy of fatalism and acceptance of the future. Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation. Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be. Spanish qué será será ‘what will be, will be’, popularized by the 1956 song ‘Que Sera, Sera’. The phrase became a major part of the lexicon when Doris Day had a big hit with the song ‘Que Sera, Sera’.

The translation is closest to Spanish, but it really is Italian in origin. Que sera, sera means ‘whatever will be, will be’. It is composed of Spanish or Italian words superimposed on English syntax. The saying is always in an English-speaking context, and it has no history in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, or French, in fact, the saying is ungrammatical in all four of these Romance languages.