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quoi

what

pronoun kwah Common

Usage Note

Quoi is the stressed, standalone 'what' — used after prepositions, as a blunt quoi ? when you didn't catch something, and at sentence-end as the very French verbal shrug ..., quoi. It anchors the casual greeting quoi de neuf ? (what's new?) and the reply il n'y a pas de quoi (don't mention it).

Examples

quoi tu penses ?"

Natural Translation

What are you thinking about?

Literal Translation

At what you think

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