Japanese word
何
なに
In your course · Chapter 5
- Part of speech
- pronoun
- Register
- informal
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 49 in the course corpus
Meanings
- what
- you-know-what
- that thing
- whatsit
- whachamacallit
- what's-his-name
- what's-her-name
- penis
- (one's) thing
- dick
- (not) at all
- (not) in the slightest
- what?
- huh?
- hey!
- come on!
- oh, no (it's fine)
- why (it's nothing)
- oh (certainly not)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 何
- On reading:
- カ
- Kun reading:
- なに、なに-、なん、なん-
- Meanings:
- what
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Examples
何ですか
What is it?
何が好きですか
What do you like?
何食べる？
What are you going to eat?
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