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English
Pronunciation
Phrase
what's the matter?
- (idiomatic) What is wrong? What's the problem?
Why are you crying? What's the matter?
What's the matter with you? Why would you do a thing like that?
- (dated) What's happening? What's the news?
Synonyms
Translations
what's wrong?
- Arabic: مَاذَا حَدَثَ؟ (māḏā ḥadaṯa?), مَا الْخَطْب؟ (mā l-ḵaṭb?), مَا الْأَمْر؟ (mā l-ʔamr?)
- Hijazi Arabic: إيش فيه؟ (ʔēš fī?), إيش صار؟ (ʔēš ṣār?)
- Belarusian: у чым спра́ва? (u čym správa?), што зда́рылася? (što zdárylasja?)
- Cebuano: unsay problema?
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 啥物代誌? / 啥物代志? (siáⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-mih tāi-chì? / siám-mih tāi-chì? / sáⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siám-mi̍h tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-mí tāi-chì? / siáⁿ-meh tāi-chì? / sahⁿ-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 什物代誌? / 什物代志? (sím-mi̍h tāi-chì? / sím-mi tāi-chì? / sím-mih tāi-chì? / sīm-mi̍h tāi-chì? / sám-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 何物代誌? / 何物代志? (há-mi̍h tāi-chì?), 啥代? (siáⁿ-tāi?)
- Mandarin: 什麼事? / 什么事? (shénme shì?), 怎麼了? / 怎么了? (zh) (zěnme le?)
- Danish: hvad sker der
- Dutch: wat is er aan de hand?
- Finnish: mikä hätänä, mistä on kysymys
- French: qu'est-ce qui se passe ?, qu'est-ce qu'il y a ?
- Galician: que pasa?
- German: was ist los?, was is passiert?, was ist geschehen?
- Greek:
- Ancient: τί τὸ κακόν; (tí tò kakón?)
- Hindi: क्या बात है? (kyā bāt hai?)
- Hungarian: mi a baj?, mi történt?
- Icelandic: hvað er að?, hvað amar að?
- Indonesian: apa masalahnya?
- Japanese: どうしたんですか (dō shita n desu ka?), どうしましたか (dō shimashita ka?), どうしたの? (dō shita no?)
- Korean: 무슨 일입니까? (museun ir-imnikka?), 무슨 일이에요? (museun ir-ieyo?), 무슨 일이야? (museun ir-iya?)
- Latin: quid tibi est?, quid est?
- Macedonian: што е? (što e?)
- Malay: apa masalahnya?
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hva er i veien?
- Nynorsk: kva er i vegen?
- Ojibwe: aaniin dina?
- Polish: co się stało? (literally “what happened?”), w czym problem?
- Portuguese: o que é que se passa?, o que é que foi?, o que é que tem?, qual é o problema?
- Russian: в чём де́ло? (v čom délo?), что случи́лось? (što slučílosʹ?), что тако́е? (ru) (što takóje?)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: što je bilo?, što se dogodilo?
- Spanish: (informal) ¿qué te pasa?, (formal) ¿qué le pasa a usted?
- Tagalog: ano'ng problema?
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: sorun nedir?
- Ukrainian: в чо́му спра́ва? (v čómu správa?), що тра́пилося? (ščo trápylosja?)
- Urdu: کْیا بات ہَے؟ (kyā bāt hai?)
- Welsh: beth sy'n bod?, beth sydd o'i le?
- Yagara: menango
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