what's your job

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

what's your job?

1. Inquires about the subject's current occupation.

Translations

what's your job?

• Arabic: مَا عَمَلُك؟ (mā ʕamaluk?)

  Egyptian Arabic: عَمَلَك ايه؟ (ʕamalak ēh?) (to a man), عَمَلِك ايه؟ (ʕamalik ēh?) (to a woman)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 你做盛行？ (nei⁵ zou⁶ sing⁶ hong⁴?), 你做邊行？／你做边行？ (nei⁵ zou⁶ bin¹ hong⁴?)

  Hokkien: 汝做啥物頭路？／汝做啥物头路？ (lí chòe siáⁿ-mih thâu-lō͘?), 汝作啥物頭路？／汝作啥物头路？ (lí choh siáⁿ-mih thâu-lō͘?)

  Mandarin: 你的工作是什麼?／你的工作是什么? (nǐ de gōngzuò shì shénme?)

• Dutch: wat is uw baan? (formal), wat is je baan? (informal), wat is jouw baan? (informal)
• Finnish: mitä teet työksesi?
• French: (formal) quel est votre travail ?, (familiar) quel est ton travail ?
• Galician: en que traballas?
• German: (formal) als was arbeiten Sie?; was machen Sie beruflich?; (familiar) als was arbeitest du?; was machst du beruflich
• Hindi: आपका काम क्या है? (āpkā kām kyā hai?)
• Hungarian: (formal) mivel foglalkozik?, (informal) mivel foglalkozol?
• Japanese: 仕事は何ですか (shigoto wa nan desu ka?), 仕事は？ (ja) (shigoto wa?) (plain)
• Kazakh: жұмысын қандай? (jūmysyn qandai?) (informal), жұмысыныз қандай? (jūmysynyz qandai?) (formal)
• Korean: 직업은 무엇입니까? (jigeob-eun mueosimnikka?), 직업은 뭐예요? (jigeob-eun mwoyeyo?)
• Low German:

  German Low German: wat is Ehr Arbeit? (formal), wat is dien Arbeit? (informal)

• Persian: شغل شما چیست؟ (šoğl-e šomâ čist?), شغلت چیست؟ (šoğlat čist?) (informal)
• Polish: kim jesteś z zawodu?, gdzie pracujesz?
• Portuguese: qual é o seu trabalho?
• Russian: (formal) кака́я у вас рабо́та? (kakája u vas rabóta?), (informal) кака́я у тебя́ рабо́та? (kakája u tebjá rabóta?)
• Spanish: ¿cuál es su ocupación?
• Swedish: vad är ditt jobb?
• Tagalog: ano trabaho mo?, ano hanapbuhay mo?
• Thai: งานของคุณอะไร (ngaan kŏng kun arai) (add ครับ (kráp) (male speaker) or คะ (ká) (female speaker) to the end to make the question more polite)
• Ukrainian: (formal) яка́ у ва́с робо́та? (jaká u vás robóta?), (informal) яка́ у те́бе робо́та? (jaká u tébe robóta?)
• Urdu: آپ کا کام کیا ہے؟ (āp kā kām kyā hai?)
• Vietnamese: công việc của bạn là gì? (generic, replace bạn with the appropriate pronoun)

See also

• what do you do?, what do you do for a living?
• where do you work?