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

• (Kajkavian) kȁj
• (Chakavian) čȁ

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьto (“what”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: što
• Syllabification: što

Pronoun

što n

1. what

   Što je Was k tomu pohnuło?

   What made you do it?

Declension

Declension of što (sg-only inanimate pronoun)

	singular
nominative	što
genitive	čeho
dative	čemu
accusative	što
vocative	—
locative	čim
instrumental	čim

Further reading

• “što” in Soblex

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