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what

interrogative pronoun or question

55 languages14 dialects🎙 1 real recording

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co, що, что11 languages
what, wat4 languages
hvad, hvað, hva4 languages
qué, què, o que3 languages
ne, не3 languages
quoi, quid2 languages
mis, mi2 languages
kas2 languages

Groups are automatic — by similar words, not from an etymological dictionary.

In Ukrainian dialects, “what” also goes by other names: шо (Boyko dialect, Central Polissian dialect, Dniester dialect, East Polissian dialect, Hutsul dialect, Middle Dnieper dialect, Podillian dialect, Pokuttia-Bukovyna dialect, Slobozhan dialect, Steppe dialect, Volhynian dialect, West Polissian dialect); што (Lemko dialect, Transcarpathian dialect).

In other languages: що (Ukrainian), was (German), quoi (French), qué (Spanish), co (Polish).

Albanian
çfarë≈
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Arabic
مَا
Armenian
ինչ≈
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Azerbaijani
nə
Basque
zer?≈
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Belarusian
што≈
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Bosnian
šta≈
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Bulgarian
какво≈
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Catalan
què≈
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Crimean Tatar
ne≈
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Croatian
što≈
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Czech
co≈
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Danish
hvad
Dutch
wat≈
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English
what
Estonian
mis≈
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Finnish
mikä≈
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French
quoi
Georgian
რა≈
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German
was≈
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Greek
τι≈
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Hebrew
מה≈
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Hindi
क्या≈
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Hungarian
mi≈
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Icelandic
hvað≈
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Irish
cad≈
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Italian
cosa≈
Also: che
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Japanese
何≈
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Kazakh
не≈
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Korean
무엇≈
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Kyrgyz
эмне≈
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Latin
quid
Latvian
kas≈
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Lithuanian
kas≈
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Luxembourgish
wat≈
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Macedonian
што≈
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Maltese
xiex≈
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Mongolian
юу≈
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Norwegian Bokmål
hva≈
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Persian
چه≈
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Polish
co≈
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Portuguese
o que≈
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Romanian
ce≈
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Russian
что
Scots
what
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Serbian
шта≈
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Slovak
čo≈
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Slovene
kaj≈
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Spanish
qué≈
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Swedish
vad≈
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Tajik
чӣ≈
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Turkish
ne≈
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Turkmen
näme≈
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Ukrainian
що≈
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Boyko dialect
шо≈
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Central Polissian dialect
шо≈
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Dniester dialect
шо≈
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East Polissian dialect
шо≈
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Hutsul dialect
шо≈
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Lemko dialect
што≈
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Middle Dnieper dialect
шо≈
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Podillian dialect
шо≈
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Pokuttia-Bukovyna dialect
шо≈
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Slobozhan dialect
шо≈
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Steppe dialect
шо≈
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Transcarpathian dialect
што≈
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Volhynian dialect
шо≈
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West Polissian dialect
шо≈
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Uzbek
nima≈
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