что за

Russian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʂto zə] (phonetic respelling: што́ за)

Adverb

что́ за • (štó za)

  1. what, what kind of, what sort of
  2. what a/an [insert noun]

Usage notes
  • Что́ за is one of only two environments in Russian in which a preposition can take a nominative argument; the other is в.
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