what is that

English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

• what's that

Phrase

(deprecated template usage) what is that?

1. Asks the interlocutor to identify an indicated object.

Translations

what is that?

• Afrikaans: wat is dit?
• Albanian: çfarë është kjo?
• Arabic: مَا هٰذَا؟ (mā hāḏā?)

  Egyptian Arabic: ايه ده؟ (ē da?), ده ايه؟ (da ē?)

  Levantine: شُو هَاد؟ (šū hād?), إِيش هَاد؟ (ʾēš hād?)

  Moroccan Arabic: اشنو هدا؟ (ašnu hada?)

• Armenian: այդ ինչ է (ayd inčʻ ē)
• Asturian: ¿qué ye eso?
• Azerbaijani: bu nədir?
• Belarusian: што́ гэ́та (štó héta)?, што гэ́та тако́е (što héta takóje)?
• Bengali: যে কি? (je ki?)
• Bulgarian: какво́ е това́? (kakvó e tová?)
• Burmese: အဲဒါဘာလဲ။ (ai:dabhalai:||)
• Cherokee: ᏕᏣᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᎭᏍ? (detsalvwisdanehas?)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 呢個乜嘢嚟㗎／呢个乜嘢嚟㗎, 呢个乜嘢嚟㗎 (nei¹ go³ mat¹ je⁵ lei⁴ gaa³?) (vernacular), 呢係乜嘢／呢系乜嘢 (nei¹ hai⁶ mat¹ je⁵?) (vernacular)

  Mandarin: 這是什麼／这是什么 (zhè shì shénme), 这是什么 (zhè shì shénme?)

  Min Nan: 這是啥／这是啥, 这是啥 (che sī siáⁿ?)

  Wu: 搿是啥 (geq zr sa?) (Shanghai)

• Chinook Jargon: ikta ukuk
• Czech: co je to?
• Danish: hvad er det?
• Dutch: wat is dat?
• Erzya: те мезе (ťe meźe)?
• Esperanto: kio estas tio?
• Estonian: mis see on?
• Finnish: mikä tuo on
• French: qu’est-ce que c’est ? (fr), c’est quoi ? (fr)
• Galician: que é iso?
• Georgian: ეს რა არის? (es ra aris?)
• German: was ist das?
• Greek: τι είναι αυτό; (ti eínai aftó?)
• Hebrew: מַה זֶּה? m (ma zé), מַה זֹּאת? f (ma zót)
• Hindi: यह क्या है (yah kyā hai)?
• Hungarian: mi az?
• Icelandic: hvað er þetta?
• Ido: quo esas ito?
• Indonesian: apa itu?
• Irish: cad é sin?
• Italian: che cosa è questo?
• Japanese: これは何ですか (これはなんですか, kore wa nan desu ka) , これは何？ (これはなに？, kore wa nani?) (casual)
• Kannada: ಎಂದು ಏನು? (endu ēnu?)
• Kazakh: бұл не? (būl ne?)
• Khmer: ស្អីនេះ (s’əy nih?)
• Korean: 이것은 무엇입니까 (igeoseun mueosimnikka) (formal), 이게 뭐예요 (ige mwoyeyo)
• Kumyk: бу не? (bu ne?), бу недир? (bu nedir?)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kyrgyz: бул эмне? (bul emne?)
• Lao: ນີ້ແມ່ນຫຍັງ (nī mǣn nyang)
• Latvian: kas tas ir?
• Lithuanian: kas tai yra?
• Lojban:
• Low German:

  German Low German: wat is dat?

• Luxembourgish: wat ass dat?
• Macedonian: што е о́ва? (što e óva?)
• Malay: apakah itu?
• Maltese: x’inhu dak?
• Mongolian: энэ юу вэ? (ene juu ve?)
• Navajo: haʼátʼíishąʼ?, haʼátʼíí átʼé?, shá yínízhí
• Nogai: бу оьзи не (bu özi ne)?
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hva er det?

  Nynorsk: kva er det?

• Ojibwe: awegonen i'iw?
• Persian: این چیه؟ (in čí-ye?), این چیست؟ (in čist?) (formal)
• Polish: co to jest?
• Portuguese: o que é isso?, o que é isto?
• Romanian: ce este asta?
• Russian: что́ э́то (štó éto)?, что э́то тако́е (što éto takóje)?
• Scottish Gaelic: dé sin?
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шта је ово?, што је ово?, кај је ово? (Kajkavian)

  Roman: šta je ovo?, što je ovo?, kaj je ovo? (Kajkavian)

• Sinhalese: මේ මොකක්ද ? (mē mokakda ?)
• Slovak: čo je to?
• Slovene: kaj je to?
• Spanish: ¿qué es eso?, ¿qué es esto?
• Swedish: vad är det?
• Tagalog: ano iyon? (remote from speaker and the person being addressed), ano 'yun? (remote from speaker and the person being addressed), ano iyan? (near the person being addressed)
• Tajik: ин чист? (in čist?)
• Tamil: அது என்ன? (atu eṉṉa?)
• Telugu: అది ఏమిటి? (adi ēmiṭi?)
• Thai: นี้อะไร (níi à-rai), นี้คืออะไร (níi kʉʉ à-rai)
• Turkish: bu nedir?
• Turkmen: bu näme?
• Ukrainian: що́ це (ščó ce)?, що це таке́ (ščo ce také)?
• Urdu: یہ کیا ہے؟ (ye kyā hai?)
• Uzbek: bu nima?
• Vietnamese: cái này là gì?
• Yiddish: וואָס איז דאָס? (vos iz dos?)
• Yup'ik: cauga?
• Zulu: yini lokho?