who are you

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

who are you?

1. Asks the interlocutor for their identification

Derived terms

• who are you and what have you done with someone

Translations

who are you?

• Arabic: مَنْ أَنْتَ؟ (man ʔanta?) (to a man), مَنْ أَنْتِ؟ (man ʔanti?) (to a woman), مَنْ أَنْتُمَا c du (man ʔantumā), مَنْ أَنْتُمْ m pl (man ʔantum), مَنْ أَنْتُنَّ f pl (man ʔantunna)
• Catalan: qui és vosté?, qui ets?
• Cebuano: kinsa ka?
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 你係邊個？／你系边个？ (nei⁵ hai⁶ bin¹ go¹?)

  Hokkien: 汝是誰仔?／汝是谁仔? (dí sĭ siâng-á) (Philippine)

  Mandarin: 你是誰？／你是谁？ (nǐ shì shéi?), 您是哪位？ (nín shì nǎ wèi?) (formal, polite)

• Dutch: wie bent u?, wie ben jij?, wie ben je?
• Esperanto: kiu estas vi?
• Estonian: (informal) kes sa oled?, (formal) kes te olete?
• Finnish: kuka sinä olet (informal), kuka Te olette (formal)
• French: vous êtes qui ?, qui êtes-vous ?, (informal) tu es qui ?, qui es-tu ?
• Galician: quen é?, quen es?
• Garo: na·a sawa?
• German: wer sind Sie?, (informal) wer bist du?
• Greek: ποιος είσαι; m (poios eísai?) (male), ποια είσαι; (poia eísai?) (female)
• Hebrew: (to a man) מי אתה? (mi 'atá?), (to a woman) מי את? (mi 'at?)
• Hindi: आप कौन हैं? (āp kaun ha͠i?), (informal) तुम कौन हो? (tum kaun ho?), तू कौन है? (tū kaun hai?) (intimate)
• Hungarian: (very polite) kihez van szerencsém?, (formal) ön kicsoda?, (informal) ki vagy?, (“who is that?”, e.g. on the intercom) ki az?
• Hutterisch: wer bisten du
• Indonesian: siapa kamu? (informal), siapa Anda? (polite)
• Ingrian: ken siä oot
• Irish: cé thusa?
• Italian: chi sei?
• Japanese: あなたは誰ですか？ (anata wa dare desu ka?)
• Kapampangan: ninu ika?, ninu ikayo?, ninu pu ika?, ninu pu ikayo?
• Kazakh: кімсің? (kımsıñ?)
• Khmer: អ្នក​ជា​នរណា? (neak cie nɔɔnaa?)
• Korean: 누구세요? (nuguseyo?)
• Latgalian: kas tu? kas tu esi? kas esi?
• Latin: quis es tu
• Low German:

  German Low German: wokeen büst du? (informal), wokeen sünd Se? c pl

• Marathi: तू कोण? (tū koṇ?), तुम्ही कोण? (tumhī koṇ?), आपण कोण? (āpaṇ koṇ?)
• Navajo: háíshąʼ áńtʼį́?
• Ngazidja Comorian: we nɗo ?
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvem er du?

• Ojibwe: awenen?
• Old English: hwæt eart þū?
• Old Tupi: abápe nde?
• Persian: شما کی اید؟ (šomâ ki id?), شما کی هستید؟ (šomâ ki hastid?), (informal) تو کی ای؟ (tô ki i?) تو کی هستی؟ (tô ki hasti?)
• Portuguese: quem é você?, quem és tu?
• Romani: kon san? sg, kon san tu? sg
• Russian: кто́ вы? (któ vy?), вы кто́? (vy któ?), (informal) кто́ ты? (któ ty?), ты кто́? (ty któ?)
• Spanish: ¿quién eres?, (formal) ¿quién es usted?
• Swahili: wewe ni nani
• Swedish: vem är du?
• Tagalog: (informal) sino ka?, (polite) sino po kayo?
• Thai: คุณเป็นใคร?
• Turkish: (informal) kimsin?, (formal) kimsiniz?
• Urdu: آپ کون ہیں؟ (āp kaun ha͠i?) (formally), آپ کون ہو؟ (āp kaun ho?) (formally, to a child), تم کون ہو؟ (tum kaun ho?) (informal), تو کون ہے؟ (tū kaun hai?) (slang, possibly vulgar)
• Uzbek: kim bu?
• Vietnamese: bạn là ai? (bạn (you) should be replaced with an appropriate pronoun)
• Welsh: pwy wyt ti? (informal), pwy dach chi? (formal)
• Yup'ik: kituusit?

Anagrams

• how are you