What is what in English?
Answers
Explanation:
What is a wh-word. We use what to ask questions and as a pronoun and determiner.
What as a question word
We can use what to ask for information about things and actions:
What do you want?
What’s she doing? Tell her to stop at once!
What time are you leaving?
We can also use what in indirect questions:
She asked me what my address was.
I wonder what Jim Barfield is doing these days.
See also:
Questions: wh-questions
What meaning ‘please repeat’
We can use what in informal situations to ask someone to repeat something if we don’t hear it or understand it:
A:
Did you get the paper?
B:
Sorry, what? (sorry alone would be more polite)
A:
Did you get the paper?
B:
Oh, yes. It’s in the kitchen.
Answer:
English is a West Germanic language originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula on the Baltic