4.4. ENRICHMENT 213
This particle is a contraction of
(when talking about ...) and is
often used to grab someone’s aĴention, similar to :
”Hey, are (you) listening or what? Helloooo? I said, hello!?”
This particle is essentially the question word
paired with the quoting
particle , to create an emphatic ”what” such as in ”what a preĴy bird” or
”you did what??”:
”What a preĴy starry sky.”
A special word involves this particle paired with - , the
for , forming the word , meaning ”for no reason”:
A:
B:
A: ”Why did (you) hit (him)?”
B: ”I just felt like it”
(This is a semantic translation, literally B says ”For no (good) reason”,
as an open sentence)
The colloquial version, , can also be used to mean
,
and is typically used in an exclamatory fashion:
”What (on earth) did (you) do?”
