English

Pronunciation

• wŏt, /wɒt/, /wQt/

  Homophones: Watt, wot

• hwŏt, /ʍɒt/, /WQt/
• wŭt, /wʌt/, /wVt/
• hwŭt, /ʍʌt/, /WVt/

Interrogative pronoun

what?

1. which thing

   What is that?

Translations

• Balinese: apa
• Bulgarian: какво
• Chinese: 什麼 , 什么 , 啥
• Dutch: wat
• Esperanto: kio
• Finnish: mikä
• French: quoi
• German: was
• Greek: τι (ti)
• Hebrew: מה (ma)
• Hindi: क्या (kyā)
• Ido: quo
• Indonesian: apa
• Irish: cad
• Italian: che cosa , cosa
• Japanese: 何 (なに , nani [when used alone]; なん nan [when used with another word])
• Korean: 무엇
• Latin: quod
• Norwegian: hva
• Persian: چِه (če), چی (či)

  co

• Portuguese: que
• Romanian: ce
• Russian: что

  čo

• Spanish: qué , cuál
• Swedish: vad
• Turkish: ne
• Urdu: كيا (kyā)

Relative pronoun

what

1. that which; those which

   He knows what he wants.

Translations

• Bulgarian: какво
• Dutch: wat
• Esperanto: ke, kiu
• Finnish: mikä
• French: ce que , ce qui
• German: was
• Italian: ciò che , quello che , cosa
• Japanese: Japanese does not have relative pronouns
• Norwegian: hva
• Polish: to co
• Portuguese: o que
• Romanian: care
• Spanish: lo que
• Swedish: vad

Interrogative determiner

what?

1. which; which kind of.

   What shirt are you going to wear?

2. how much; how great (used in an exclamation)

   What talent he has!

Translations

• Dutch: welk
• Esperanto: kiu
• Finnish: mikä (1, 2), millainen (2)
• French: quel m, quelle f, quels pl, m, quelles pl, f
• German: welch
• Norwegian: hvilken
• Polish: który m (1), która f (1), które n (1), jaki m (2), jaka f (2) jakie n (2)
• Portuguese: qual , que
• Russian: который /которая /которое (kotoryj/kotoraja/kotoroje) m/f/n (1), какой /какая /какое (kakoj/kakaja/kakoje) m/f/n (2)
• Slovak: čo
• Spanish: qué
• Swedish: vilken

Interjection

what!

1. an expression of surprise or disbelief.

   What! That's amazing.

2. [mostly British colloquialism]: is that not true?

   It's a nice day, what?

Translations

• Bulgarian: какво !
• Dutch: wat!
• Finnish: mitä! (1)
• French: quoi ! , comment!
• German: was!
• Indonesian: apa
• Japanese: 何 (なに, nani)
• Polish: co!
• Russian: как ! (kak), что ли ? (chto li)
• Slovak: čo
• Spanish: ¡qué ! ¿no?
• Swedish: va

Adverb

what

1. ...

   What a pity.

   What a beautiful day!

Synonyms

• such

Translations

• German: was für , wie, so
• Japanese: 何と (なんと, nanto)
• Portuguese: que
• Russian: какой /какая /какое (kakoj/kakaja/kakoje) m/f/n, что за (chto za)
• Spanish: ¡qué !