Difference between revisions of "What"

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(Interrogative pronoun)
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What do you want? <i>Qu'est-ce que tu veux?</i>
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<u>What does</u> she want? <i><u>Qu'est-ce qu</u>'elle veux?</i>
 
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<span style="color:green;">keskə</span> and <span style="color:green;">wədə</span>. Kesk'il veut.  Wədəz he want?
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<span style="color:green;">wədə</span> and <span style="color:green;">keskə</span>  Kesk'elle veut.  Wədəz she want?

Revision as of 00:47, 16 February 2013

interrogative pronoun (3rd person singular inanimate), interrogative determiner / adjective.

Interrogative pronoun

In both English and French, it is considered quite lax to say:

  • You want what? Tu veux quoi?

But I am sure that both anglophones and francophones find these phrasings perfectly functional. Nevertheless, normatively it does seem to me that the English proposition is considered "wrong" despite its relative frequence in natural speech. Of course in school we are taught to say:

What does she want? Qu'est-ce qu'elle veux?

wədə and keskə Kesk'elle veut. Wədəz she want?