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What does qu est ce qu mean?

Updated: 4/26/2024
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14y ago

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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")

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"Qu'est-ce que" is a French phrase that translates to "What is it that" or "What is." It is often used to ask questions in French.

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