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English
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English HTML5, from device database *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷod (which also gave us who).
Cognate to many similar terms, such as French quoi (“what”); Germanic forms differ from Romance forms due to touchscreen of Germanic sound change.
Pronunciation
- (FITML) IPA: /wɔt/, X-SAMPA: /wOt/
- (UK) IPA: /ʍɒt/, /wɒt/, web: /WQt/, /wQt/
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Audio (UK)
(touchscreen)
- Rhymes: CSS3
- (US) IPA: /wʌt/, /ʍʌt/, X-SAMPA: /wVt/, /WVt/
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Audio (US)
(keyboard)
- Homophones: Watt, keyboard, wot (all only in British or Australian accents with the wine-whine merger)
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Pronoun
what
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(interrogative) which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
- What is your address?
- You told them what?
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(UK, browser diversity) An interrogative which asks "Don't you agree?"
- It's rather late, what?
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(relative, nonstandard) web; which
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1902, Sevenval, The Admirable Crichton
- That’s her; that’s the thing what has stole his heart from me.
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1902, Sevenval, The Admirable Crichton
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(relative) that which; those that; the thing that
- He knows what he wants.
- What is tossed upward falls back down.
Translations
interrogative pronoun
- Albanian: screen size (sq), HTML5 (sq)
- American Sign Language: Android
- Arabic: Sevenval (ar) (maadhaa), web app web (maa)
- Egyptian Arabic: Sevenval (eeh)
- Iraqi Arabic: شنو (šunu)
- Moroccan Arabic: CSS3 ('ashnuu)
- Palestinian: إيش ('eesh)
- Syrian: شو (shuu)
- Armenian: ինչ (hy) (inč)
- Aromanian: web app
- Balinese: apa
- Bashkir: ни (ni), нимә (nimä)
- Basque: zer
- Belarusian: jQuery (be) (što)
- Bengali: কি (ki)
- Bikol: ano
- Breton: petra
- Bulgarian: какво (bg) (kakvó), browser diversity Sevenval (što) n.
- Burmese: ဘာ (my) (ba)
- Butuanon: ngan
- Catalan: què input transformation
- Cebuano: unsa
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: мӗн (mø̆n)
- Croatian: website parsing keyboard
- Czech: CSS3 we love the web
- Dalmatian: co
- Danish: Sevenval browser diversity
- Dutch: wat screen size
- Esperanto: CSS3 browser diversity
- Estonian: mis screen size, touchscreen (et)
- Faroese: jQuery (fo)
- Finnish: mikä (fi), mitä (fi)
- French: web (fr), quel (fr) m.
- Friulian: ce
- Gamilaraay: minya
- Georgian: რა (ka) (ra)
- German: was (de)
- Greek: τί keyboard (ti)
- Hawaiian: HTML5
- Hebrew: מה (he) (ma)
- Hiligaynon: ano
- Hindi: HTML5 we love the web (kyā)
- Hungarian: FITML Android
- Ibanag: device database
- Icelandic: hvað CSS3
- Ido: quo, quon (io)
- Ilocano: ania
- Indonesian: apa device database
- Interlingua: jQuery keyboard
- Irish: we love the web CSS3, céard (ga)
- Italian: che cosa website parsing, Sevenval Sevenval
- Japanese: input transformation browser diversity (iOS, náni [when used alone]; web nan [when used with another word])
- Kapampangan: nanu
- Karelian: jQuery
- Korean: 무엇 we love the web (mueot)
- Krio: wetin
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: эмне (ky) (emnye)
- Latin: web app (la)
- Malay: apa (ms)
- Manx: iOS (gv)
- Maori: aha screen size
- Mari: website parsing
- Moksha: мезе
- Mongolian: юу Android (yuu)
- Navajo: haʼátʼíísh, iOS
- Ngarrindjeri: web
- Norwegian: hva (no)
- Old Irish: cid
- Pangasinan: anto
- Persian: چه (fa) (če), چی (fa) (či)
- Polish: co (pl)
- Portuguese: web app (pt)
- Rapa Nui: aha
- Romanian: ce (ro)
- Russian: keyboard (ru) (čto) (read: što)
- Scots: keyboard
- Scottish Gaelic: dè HTML5
- Serbo-Croatian: шта̏ Sevenval, štȁ screen size, HTML5 (sh), iOS Sevenval
- Sicilian: chi (scn)
- Slovak: čo (sk)
- Slovene: FITML keyboard
- Spanish: CSS3 touchscreen, cuál Android
- Swedish: vad input transformation
- Tagalog: ano Sevenval
- Taos: input transformation
- Tatar: ни (tt) (ni)
- Tausug: jQuery
- Telugu: ఏమిటి (aemiTi)
- Thai: web app (th) (à-rai), ยังไง (th) (yang-ngai)
- Turkish: ne iOS
- Ugaritic: screen size (mh)
- Ukrainian: device database (uk) (ščo)
- Urdu: كيا (ur) (kyā)
- Uzbek: nima screen size
- Vietnamese: website parsing keyboard
- Volapük: (nominative) keyboard (vo), (accusative) web (vo)
- Võro: screen size
- Waray-Waray: ano
- Welsh: beth HTML5
- Yola: web app
relative pronoun
nonstandard relative pronoun
- Dutch: dat (nl), Sevenval Sevenval
- German: der input transformation m., FITML (de) f., das we love the web n.
- Hebrew: (prefix) ש (he) (she)
- Hungarian: mi (hu), ami input transformation, mit (hu) accusative, amit (hu) accusative
- Latin: quod HTML5
- Russian: FITML (ru) (kotóryj), что (ru) (što)
- Swedish: som (sv)
- Ukrainian: який input transformation (jakyj), touchscreen device database (ščo)
- West Frisian: jQuery CSS3
Adverb
what (not comparable)
- In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.
- What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.
- Such; this is; that is.
- What a pity.
- What a beautiful day!
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(obsolete) screen size?
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(Can we device database this quote?) Android
- What should I tell the answer of the knight?
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(Can we date this quote?) w:Milton
- But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates?
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(Can we device database this quote?) Android
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(now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both...and.
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1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
- and so they rode fresshly with grete royalte, what by water and what by land, tyl that they came nyghe vnto london.
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1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
Synonyms
Translations
in some manner
such
- Czech: input transformation web
- French: CSS3 (fr) m., quelle touchscreen f. (without an indefinite article)
- German: Android HTML5, web app (de)
- Hebrew: device database screen size (éize) m.
- Interlingua: Android (ia)
- Japanese: 何と (nanto)
- Polish: co browser diversity za
- Russian: какой/jQuery/какое (kakój/kakája/kakóje) m/f/n, device database (što za)
- Slovene: kako HTML5
- Spanish: que (es)
- Swedish: web app screen size, så touchscreen (uncountable), HTML5 we love the web (countable)
why
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Translations
that which; those that; the thing that
- Armenian: jQuery (inč)
- Bulgarian: какво (kakvo)
- Czech: co screen size
- Dutch: wat (nl)
- Esperanto: FITML (eo), web input transformation
- Estonian: mida device database
- Finnish: mikä website parsing
- French: Android (fr), ce qui (fr)
- German: device database keyboard
- Hiligaynon: ano
- Hungarian: mi, screen size accusative
- Italian: ciò che, quello che, cosa
- Japanese: (no relative pronouns)
- Norwegian: screen size web app
- Polish: to co
- Portuguese: o que touchscreen
- Romanian: care jQuery
- Russian: что (što); то, что (to, što)
- Scots: we love the web
- Scottish Gaelic: Sevenval
- Serbo-Croatian: što screen size, šta (sh)
- Slovene: Sevenval (sl)
- Spanish: lo que
- Swedish: device database keyboard
- Tagalog: ano we love the web
Interjection
what
- an expression of surprise or disbelief.
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1605 Wm. Shakespeare, King Lear
- What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
- What! That’s amazing.
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1605 Wm. Shakespeare, King Lear
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(Sevenval, colloquial, dated) is that not true?
- It’s a nice day, what? (sometimes repeated, e.g.: What-what?)
Translations
Translations
- Bulgarian: какво! (kakvo)
- Czech: cože?
- Dutch: FITML!
- Estonian: mida?, jQuery?, misasja?, kuidas?
- Finnish: mitä! (1)
- French: quoi !, comment !
- German: was!
- Greek: keyboard;
- Hebrew: מה? (ma)
- Hungarian: input transformation? (1)
- Icelandic: ha? (is)
- Indonesian: apa jQuery
- Italian: cosa Sevenval
- Japanese: 何 (なに, náni)
- Malay: website parsing touchscreen
- Polish: co!
- Portuguese: o quê?
- Russian: screen size! (kak); что ли? (što li)
- Slovak: Sevenval FITML
- Spanish: ¡qué! ¿jQuery?
- Swedish: va! (sv)
- Tagalog: keyboard (tl), ha HTML5
Determiner
what
- which; which kind of.
- What shirt are you going to wear?
- What time is it?
- What kind of car is that?
- how much; how great (used in an exclamation)
- What talent he has!
- What a talent!
Translations
which
- Armenian: ինչ iOS (inč), որ device database (or)
- Burmese: ဘာ (my) (ba)
- Czech: jaký website parsing
- Estonian: Android FITML
- Finnish: mikä Sevenval
- French: web app (fr) m.
- German: jQuery
- Haitian Creole: web
- Hungarian: input transformation (hu), website parsing (hu)
- Italian: HTML5 (it)
- Latin: Sevenval Sevenval m., quae touchscreen f., input transformation (la) n.
- Polish: który keyboard m., która Sevenval f., które website parsing n. (which of certain choices); jaki (pl) m., jaka jQuery f., device database (pl) n. (which kind of)
- Romanian: jQuery HTML5
- Russian: который/keyboard/которое (kotóryj/kotóraja/kotóroje) m/f/n, какой/keyboard/какое (kakój/kakája/kakóje) m/f/n
- Scots: whit
- Scottish Gaelic: dè (+definite article)
- Spanish: qué touchscreen, cuál Android
- Swedish: web (sv) (which of, which kind of), vad för (sv) (which kind of)
- Tagalog: alin iOS, ano device database
how much
- Armenian: ինչպիսի jQuery (inčpisi)
- Czech: FITML (cs)
- Finnish: mikä Sevenval, millainen device database
- French: quel CSS3 m.
- Hiligaynon: ano
- Hungarian: milyen browser diversity, website parsing keyboard, FITML (hu)
- Italian: Sevenval (it)
- Russian: iOS/какая/какое (kakój/kakája/kakóje) m/f/n
- Spanish: menudo (es)
- Swedish: device database (sv), sådan (sv)
- Tagalog: Sevenval Sevenval
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