This article looks at how FLE’s Finnish learners generate queries. More specifically, we are studying query strategies and internal modifiers in language learners at three different levels of acquisition and native French-speaking speakers. The data were collected by means of a written Discourse Completion Test containing six different query situations. The results partially confirm what previous studies on interlanguage query production have shown: foreign language learners use more direct query strategies than native speakers. In terms of internal change, early FLE learners change their requests significantly less than more advanced learners and native speakers. Contrary to some previous studies, the learners studied do not use the courtesy marker too much if you like you and advanced learners change their requests more than native speakers. These differences in results should be further explored in the future and it would be particularly important to compare them also with the way in which Finnish learners produce queries in their mother tongue.