what (Base Concept)
(pronoun) Used to ask for information about something or to request specification or identification (e.g., “What is your name?” “What did you say?”).
Base concept label/definition from base.json input (not necessarily English). See Translations below for the English translation/definition and other language-specific text.
- POS Type:
- pronoun
- POS Subtype:
- pronoun_other
- GUID:
-
P99_002 - Base Difficulty:
-
Level 8
Levels for pronoun (pronoun_other): 8: 14 26: 3 27: 1 - Confidence:
- 0.00
Tier Signals
| Source | Tier | Rank used |
|---|---|---|
basic_english |
Extended (2 of 2) | 1600 |
cefr |
A1 (1 of 6) | 800 |
Rank used = synthetic rank this tier contributes to the combined frequency rank (lower = more common).
Corpus Frequency
| Corpus | Freq (per M) | Best rank | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
19th_books |
4014.72 | 37 | 1 |
20th_books |
3817.01 | 36 | 1 |
cooking |
522.22 | 345 | 1 |
wiki_vital |
522.58 | 176 | 1 |
Lemma/base pronunciations
| Language | Lemma/Base Form | IPA | Phonetic | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
what
lemma |
/wʌt/ | WUH-t | base form |
Existing pronunciations
English 1 form(s)
| Form | Grammatical Form | IPA | Phonetic | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| what | lemma |
/wʌt/ | WUH-t |
Grammatical forms
English 1 form(s)
| Form | Grammatical Form | IPA | Phonetic | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| what | lemma |
/wʌt/ | WUH-t |
- Alternative Forms: Different ways to write or say the same word (e.g., "TV" ↔ "television", "gray" ↔ "grey", "thousand" ↔ "one thousand")
- Synonyms: Different words with similar meanings (e.g., "street" ↔ "road", "mad" ↔ "angry", "big" ↔ "large")
No synonyms or alternative forms have been generated yet. Use the Generate Synonyms button above to create them automatically.
| Language | Translation | Disambiguation | Definition | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English (en) | what | - | - | |
| Lithuanian (lt) | kas | - | - | |
| Chinese (zh) | - | - | ||
| Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) | Not set | - | - | |
| French (fr) | quoi | - | - | |
| Spanish (es) | qué | - | - | |
| German (de) | was | - | - | |
| Italian (it) | che cosa | - | - | |
| Dutch (nl) | wat | - | - | |
| Portuguese (pt) | o que | - | - | |
| Swedish (sv) | vad | - | - | |
| Vietnamese (vi) | gì | - | - | |
| Japanese (ja) | 何 | - | - | |
| Korean (ko) | 무엇 | - | - | |
| Latin (la) | Not set | - | - | |
| Sanskrit (sa) | Not set | - | - | |
| Ancient Greek (grc) | Not set | - | - | |
| Classical Arabic (pre-1200) (ar-classical) | Not set | - | - | |
| Old Norse (non) | Not set | - | - | |
| Swahili (sw) | nini | - | - | |
| Romanian (ro) | Not set | - | - | |
| Polish (pl) | Not set | - | - | |
| Thai (th) | Not set | - | - | |
| Malay (ms) | Not set | - | - | |
| Burmese (my) | Not set | - | - | |
| Khmer (km) | Not set | - | - | |
| Lao (lo) | Not set | - | - | |
| Filipino (tl) | Not set | - | - | |
| Tamil (ta) | Not set | - | - | |
| Telugu (te) | Not set | - | - | |
| Kannada (kn) | Not set | - | - | |
| Malayalam (ml) | Not set | - | - | |
| Sinhala (si) | Not set | - | - | |
| Ukrainian (uk) | Not set | - | - | |
| Bengali (bn) | Not set | - | - | |
| Hausa (ha) | Not set | - | - | |
| Yoruba (yo) | Not set | - | - | |
| Igbo (ig) | Not set | - | - | |
| Amharic (am) | Not set | - | - | |
| Zulu (zu) | Not set | - | - | |
| Oromo (om) | Not set | - | - | |
| Somali (so) | Not set | - | - | |
| Xhosa (xh) | Not set | - | - | |
| Shona (sn) | Not set | - | - | |
| Hindi (hi) | Not set | - | - | |
| Punjabi (pa) | Not set | - | - | |
| Pashto (ps) | Not set | - | - | |
| Persian (fa) | Not set | - | - | |
| Georgian (ka) | Not set | - | - | |
| Armenian (hy) | Not set | - | - | |
| Azerbaijani (az) | Not set | - | - | |
| Turkish (tr) | Not set | - | - | |
| Bulgarian (bg) | Not set | - | - | |
| Czech (cs) | Not set | - | - | |
| Greek (el) | Not set | - | - | |
| Estonian (et) | Not set | - | - | |
| Finnish (fi) | Not set | - | - | |
| Irish (ga) | Not set | - | - | |
| Hungarian (hu) | Not set | - | - | |
| Latvian (lv) | Not set | - | - | |
| Maltese (mt) | Not set | - | - | |
| Slovak (sk) | Not set | - | - | |
| Slovenian (sl) | Not set | - | - | |
| Bosnian (bs) | Not set | - | - | |
| Serbian (sr) | Not set | - | - | |
| Croatian (hr) | Not set | - | - | |
| Macedonian (mk) | Not set | - | - | |
| Albanian (sq) | Not set | - | - | |
| Montenegrin (me) | Not set | - | - |
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