što

See also: sto, stó, stò, -sto, -stö, and 'sto

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms
  • štȁ (interrogative pronoun only)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьto (“what”), compare *kʷis; compare Chakavian Serbo-Croatian čȁ (“what”) (from Proto-Slavic *čь).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃtô/

Adverb

štȍ (Cyrillic spelling што̏)

  1. why (short for zȁšto)
  2. (in comparisons) the, as
    što ranije to bolje ― the sooner the better
    što brže ― as quickly as possible

Pronoun

štȍ (Cyrillic spelling што̏)

  1. (Croatia, interrogative) what
    Što ćeš mi učiniti? ― What are you going to do to me?
  2. (relative) that, what, which
    Ako je to točno/tačno, mora biti da znaš nešto što ja ne znam. ― If that is correct, it must be that you know something that I don't.
  3. (Kajkavian, interrogative) who
    Što je to? ― Who is that?

Declension
Declension of što
singular/plural
nominative štȍ, štȁ
genitive čèga, čȅg
dative čèmu
accusative štȍ, štȁ
vocative —
locative čȅm, čèmu
instrumental čȋm, číme

Synonyms

Votic

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian что (što).

Pronunciation
  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈʃto/, [ˈʃto]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: što

Conjunction

što

  1. (relative) that
    Synonym: etti

References
  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “što”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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