What is it.
that means : what is it ?
What is IT maintenance?
qu'est-ce que means what? It is used to form a question, e.I.: Qu'est-ce que tu fais ? = what do you do ? Or What are you doing ? You could also ask: Que fais-tu ?
"Qu'est-ce que tu fais le soir?" "What are you doing tonight?"**Actually this would mean "What do you do at night," in the sense of what you generally do most evenings. If you want to ask what somebody is doing tonight, it's Qu-est-ce que tu fais ce soir or Que fais-tu ce soir.**
In English, "What do I do afterward?"
Qu'est-ce que c'est? in French means "What is it?" in English.
qu'est-ce que means what? It is used to form a question, e.I.: Qu'est-ce que tu fais ? = what do you do ? Or What are you doing ? You could also ask: Que fais-tu ?
Est-ce que tu means 'Do you . . . ?'
What have you got in your bag?
Qu'est-ce que Terri voit de l'avion ? means What does Terri see from the plane?
"Est-ce que vous avez ..." means "do you have..." in French.
It's normally written as "qu'est-ce que", a contraction for "que est-ce que", and it literally means "what is it that", thought it's used the way we'd say "what is". So, it's not a stand-alone phrase. You'd always be asking "qu'est-ce que [something]". For example, in the Talking Heads song Psycho Killer, the singer repeatedly asks "qu'est-ce que c'est" (pronounced kess kuh say), and he's asking "what is this" (or literally, "what is it that this is")