How to Say What in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say what in different languages. This page features translation of the word "what" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce what and how to read it.
Saying What in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say what | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Çfarë | |
| Basque | zer | |
| Belarusian | што [što] | |
| Bosnian | šta | |
| Bulgarian | Какво [Kakvo] | |
| Catalan | què | |
| Corsican | chì | |
| Croatian | što | |
| Czech | co | |
| Danish | hvad | |
| Dutch | wat | |
| Estonian | mida | |
| Finnish | mitä | |
| French | quoi | |
| Frisian | wat | |
| Galician | que | |
| German | Was | |
| Greek | τι [ti] | |
| Hungarian | mit | |
| Icelandic | hvað | |
| Irish | Cad | |
| Italian | che cosa | |
| Latvian | kas | |
| Lithuanian | ką | |
| Luxembourgish | waat | |
| Macedonian | што [što] | |
| Maltese | xiex | |
| Norwegian | hva | |
| Polish | co | |
| Portuguese | o que | |
| Romanian | ce | |
| Russian | что [chto] | |
| Scots Gaelic | dè | |
| Serbian | Шта [Šta] | |
| Slovak | čo | |
| Slovenian | kaj | |
| Spanish | qué | |
| Swedish | vad | |
| Tatar | Нәрсә | |
| Ukrainian | що [shcho] | |
| Welsh | beth | |
| Yiddish | וואס [vas] | |
Saying What in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say what | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | ինչ [inch’] | |
| Azerbaijani | nə | |
| Bengali | কি [ki] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 什么 [shénme] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 什麼 [shénme] | |
| Georgian | რა [ra] | |
| Gujarati | શું [śuṁ] | |
| Hindi | क्या [kya] | |
| Hmong | dab tsi | |
| Japanese | 何 | |
| Kannada | ಏನು [ēnu] | |
| Kazakh | не [ne] | |
| Khmer | អ្វី | |
| Korean | 무엇 [mueos] | |
| Kyrgyz | эмне [emne] | |
| Lao | ແມ່ນຫຍັງ [ aemnjang] | |
| Malayalam | എന്ത് [enthu] | |
| Marathi | काय [kāya] | |
| Mongolian | юу [yuu] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ဘာလဲ [bharlell] | |
| Nepali | के [kē] | |
| Odia | କଣ | |
| Pashto | څه | |
| Punjabi | ਕੀ [kī] | |
| Sindhi | ڇا | |
| Sinhala | කුමක් ද [kumak da] | |
| Tajik | чӣ | |
| Tamil | என்ன [eṉṉa] | |
| Telugu | ఏమి [ēmi] | |
| Thai | อะไร | |
| Turkish | ne | |
| Turkmen | näme | |
| Urdu | کیا | |
| Uyghur | نېمە | |
| Uzbek | nima | |
| Vietnamese | gì | |
Saying What in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say what | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ماذا [madha] | |
| Hebrew | מה | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | çi | |
| Persian | چی | |
Saying What in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say what | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | wat | |
| Amharic | ምንድን [minidini] | |
| Chichewa | chani | |
| Hausa | me | |
| Igbo | Kedu | |
| Kinyarwanda | iki | |
| Sesotho | eng | |
| Shona | chii | |
| Somali | waa maxay | |
| Swahili | nini | |
| Xhosa | Intoni | |
| Yoruba | kini | |
| Zulu | ini | |
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"What in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/what. Accessed 23 Sep 2023.
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