what
Example Sentences
你想吃什么？
nǐ xiǎng chī shén me?
What do you want to eat?
你看见了什么？
nǐ kàn jiàn le shén me?
What did you see?
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Related Words & Compounds
how?
and so on; and so forth; and what not
What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關|关[guan1] + {person} + 什麼事|什么事[shen2 me5 shi4] "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
(coll.) what the hell?; what on earth? (expression of confusion, disbelief or annoyance)
who? / what (kind of) person?
somewhere / someplace / where
sth pertinent to say
when?; at what time?
What brings you here? (idiom)
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