what

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , neuter form of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Determiner

 * 1)  Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
 * What colour are you going to use?
 * What time is it?
 * What kind of car is that?
 * 1)  Which.
 * I wonder what colour he is going to use.
 * I know what colour I am going to use.
 * That depends on what answer is received.
 * 1)  Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
 * This shows what beauty there is in nature.
 * You know what nonsense she talks.
 * I found out what a liar he is.
 * 1) * Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale
 * “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood.
 * I found out what a liar he is.
 * 1) * Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale
 * “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood.
 * 1) * Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale
 * “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood.
 * 1) * Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale
 * “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood.
 * 1) * Little Red Riding Hood, traditional folk tale
 * “Oh Granny, what big eyes you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood.

Usage notes
In cases where both "what" and "which" are possible, with similar meaning, "what" is preferred for open-ended choices, while "which" is preferred for choices from a closed group or set. For example, "Which one of these do you want?" not "What one of these do you want?".

As used to begin an exclamation, and  are largely interchangeable, with a few exceptions: is another word used at the beginning of a sentence to form an exclamation (How quickly he ran!), but it modifies different syntactic elements (verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and certain determinatives).
 * Nouns modified by such need not appear at the beginning of the sentence: She sings with such passion.
 * such requires that the noun phrase it modifies be gradable in some way. Such a disaster! is acceptable because a disaster may be minor or major in degree, but Such a movie! is not (except with the unusual meaning that the movie under discussion has especially "movie-like" qualities).

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hindi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , , hva for en, hva for et
 * Swedish:, vad för, vad för sorts


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Swedish:, vad för, vad för sorts


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: den


 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , hva for en, hva for et, hva for
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Bashkir: ниндәй, ҡалай, ҡайһылай
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , , sikke
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἡλίκος, οἷος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: ano
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Interlingua: qual
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 何と
 * Persian:
 * Polish: co za,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovak: aký
 * Slovene:, kákšen
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,  , ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Zazaki:


 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:
 * Telugu:


 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: מא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏙ ᎤᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 邊
 * Mandarin:
 * Hokkien:
 * Chuukese: met
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τί, τίς, ποῖος
 * Haitian Creole: ki
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kapampangan : sánu
 * Latin:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:, która, które (which of certain choices), , , jakie (which kind of)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scots: whit
 * Scottish Gaelic: dè (+definite article)
 * Slovak: aký,
 * Slovene: kákšen,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kaki
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: (which of, which kind of), vad för (which kind of)
 * Tagalog: ,

Pronoun

 * 1)  Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.:
 * What is your name?
 * Ask them what they want.
 * 1) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * The gym is across from … what? &mdash; The gym is across from the lounge. &mdash; Across from the lounge. Right. Thanks!
 * 1)  That which; those that; the thing(s) that.
 * 2)  Anything that; all that; whatever.
 * 3)  That; which; who.
 * &apos;Ere! There's that bloke what I saw earlier!
 * 1)  Anything that; all that; whatever.
 * 2)  That; which; who.
 * &apos;Ere! There's that bloke what I saw earlier!
 * 1)  That; which; who.
 * &apos;Ere! There's that bloke what I saw earlier!
 * &apos;Ere! There's that bloke what I saw earlier!

Adverb

 * 1)  In what way; to what extent.
 * What does it matter?
 * What do you care?
 * 1) * 1815, Rev. Mr. Milne, letter reprinted in The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 23, page 82.
 * The Chinese of all ranks, and in every place, received my books gladly, and listened with patience to what I had to say about the true God.—So that what from opportunities of attending to the object of my Mission among the Chinese—what from seasons of religious instruction to Dutch and English—what from intercourse with gentlemen of education and knowledge of the world—what from occasions of stating clearly the object of Missions, and of endeavouring to remove prejudices against them—and what from the view of a highly cultivated country, happy under an enlightened and liberal government, I have much reason to be satisfied with this journey [...]
 * 1) * 1815, Rev. Mr. Milne, letter reprinted in The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 23, page 82.
 * The Chinese of all ranks, and in every place, received my books gladly, and listened with patience to what I had to say about the true God.—So that what from opportunities of attending to the object of my Mission among the Chinese—what from seasons of religious instruction to Dutch and English—what from intercourse with gentlemen of education and knowledge of the world—what from occasions of stating clearly the object of Missions, and of endeavouring to remove prejudices against them—and what from the view of a highly cultivated country, happy under an enlightened and liberal government, I have much reason to be satisfied with this journey [...]

Translations

 * Finnish: mitä,
 * German: ,


 * Hindi:
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese:
 * Zazaki: seni


 * Estonian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Interjection

 * What! That’s amazing!
 * 1) What do you want?
 * 2) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What do you want?
 * 2) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What did you say? I beg your pardon?
 * 1) What did you say? I beg your pardon?

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:say again
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:say again

Translations

 * Bulgarian: какво!
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:, , misasja?,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τί δὲ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kapampangan: nano nanu na
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Manx: yagh?
 * Maori: hā, are
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, ha
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish: mitä nyt?
 * Polish: czego?!
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, vad är det?


 * German:, was?
 * Scottish Gaelic: dè, dè rud, duda, diorta
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:

Noun

 * 1)  Something; thing; stuff.
 * 2)  The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
 * 3)  Something that is addressed by, as opposed to a person, addressed by.
 * 4) * 2012, "We Are Both", season 2, episode 2 of 
 * Regina: What are you?
 * Rumplestiltskin: What? What? What? My, my, what a rude question! I am not a what.
 * Regina: What are you?
 * Rumplestiltskin: What? What? What? My, my, what a rude question! I am not a what.

Etymology
From clipping of.

Verb

 * 1)  to WhatsApp; to send via WhatsApp

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) what

Adverb

 * 1) Why.

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  what?
 * 2)  that, which

Adverb

 * 1)  how?
 * 2)  why?
 * 3)  as, than, how
 * 4)  how!

Determiner

 * 1)  what?
 * 2)  what, which
 * 3)  what a lot of! how many!

Etymology 2
From, from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to whet, hone, sharpen

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to whet