これは何ですか

Japanese
Japanese phrasebook
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Kanji in this term
何
なん
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

Phrase composed of これ (kore, “this”) + は (topic particle) + 何 (nan, “what”, combining form, usually nani) + です (desu, copula: “is, am, be,” etc.) + か (ka, sentence-final question particle).

Phrase

これは何ですか。 (hiragana これはなんですか, rōmaji kore wa nan desu ka)

  1. what is this?
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