pronoun, determiner
1 used in questions to ask for particular information about sb/sth:
What is your name? * What (= what job) does he do? * What time is it? * What kind of music do you like?
compareWHICH
2 the thing or things that; whatever:
What you need is a good meal. * Nobody knows what will happen next. * I spent what little time I had with my family.
3 used to say that you think that sth is especially good, bad, etc:
What awful weather! * What a beautiful house!
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and what not
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