"What is this?" in your native language?

[OddVisions]

What's this or what is this? This is something necessary to know in any language one is trying to learn. I thought it might be a fun exercise for all of us to share how to write or say it in our native tongues.

[nikolic993]

"Šta je ovo?" - Serbian

[LoveSundays]

"Co to jest?" - polish

[Verba]

What is this? - Ano ito? in Filipino

[Muthoni]

“What is this? in my native language would be translated into “ino ni nduu” the dot in the I is replace by this sign ~ . When I was growing up, our native language was included in the school syllabus. They have removed it today. Most kids do not understand or speak the native language. This is very sad as far as I am concerned.

[Rosa]

Other than English, I speak Jamaican Creole. "What is this" happens to be said in different ways depending on where on the island you are from. Some of these ways are:

  Wah dis?

  A wah?

  Wah iy bi?

  A wah it?

 

[Baburra]

Here it would be said as "ano Ito" or "ano 'to" for something more informal. Ano is the Filipino word for what and this is translated as ito. If you are speaking to elders though it is considered to be much more polite to put in "po" in the middle - "ano po Ito".

[takibari]

For the Cebuano (a Philippine dialect), it would go like this:

Unsa ni? OR

Unsa diay ni? Cebuanos have a penchant to omit a word or a letter.

[clod]

Cos'è questo? -Italian-

[celinehazel]

Korean

이거 뭐예요? (ee-guh-mo-eh-yo?) - Polite form

이거 뭐야? (ee-guh-mo-ya?) - Informal form

[brooklynbrooke02]

"Que es esto?"- Spanish

[elenamarie]

“What’s this?” in my native tongue would be “uno ‘di? or uno adi?” I am from Bicol, Philippines and my native dialect is Rinconada. It is way different than our national language which is Tagalog/Filipino. Our intonations are terrible that if someone listen to us talk who doesn’t know our dialect would instantly think we are fighting or something.