what

what

what

1. (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?

2. (UK, colloquial) An interrogative which asks ""Dont you agree?""

   Its rather late, what?

3. (relative, nonstandard) that; which
   • 1902, J. M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

     That’s her; that’s the thing what has stole his heart from me.

4. (relative) that which; those that; the thing that

   He knows what he wants.

   What is tossed upward falls back down.

what (not comparable)

1. in some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.

   What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.

2. Such; this is; that is.

   What a pity.

   What a beautiful day!

3. (obsolete) Why?

   What should I tell the answer of the knight? — Chaucer.

   But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? — Milton.

4. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both...and.
   • 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.

	che
	which

	che cosa
	interrogative pronoun
	Which thing.

	cosa
	that which; those that; the thing that
	interrogative pronoun

	ciò che
	that which; those that; the thing that

	quello che
	that which; those that; the thing that

	quanto
	how much

ciò

come

qual

quale

quali

quando

Altri significati:

such

Exclamation of amazement.

what (action)

(UK, colloquial) is that not true?

what?

in some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.

what (i.e. “what rudeness”) (an expression of surprise, anger)

what(?)

what (thing)

what (word, utterance)

which; which kind of.

what (questioning)

(obsolete) Why?

how much; how great (used in an exclamation)

Such; this is; that is.

(UK, colloquial) greeting (archaic).

relative pronoun

(interrogative) which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.

(relative) that which; those that; the thing that

(now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both...and.

(UK, colloquial) An interrogative which asks "Don't you agree?"

nonstandard relative pronoun

what (way)

an expression of surprise or disbelief.

(relative, nonstandard) that; which

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