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| ahoana | ~ how? What? Used in answering a call. Why? What is the cause of it? It is also an exclamation, as ahoana ary! Well then! It admits of the suffix pronouns and tenses: Ny faty aza ahoako (I care not for, or I trouble not myself about death; death has no fear for me!) ~ Ahoanao izany? (What is that to you?) ~ why? how? |
| maninona | ~ what of it ? what happened ? what's the matter? |
| ndry | ~ showing surprise or pain; what ? oh ! |
| aiza no | ~ by what means? |
| what happiness! | |
| drindra | ~ [Provincial] what pleasure! What happiness! |
| what makes it to be what it is | |
| ny maha-izy azy | ~ what makes it to be what it is or should be |
| what pleasure! | |
| drindra | ~ [Provincial] what pleasure! What happiness! |
| what's to be done | |
| izany hoe izany | ~ well then, since it is so, what's to be done? |
| what's-his-name | |
| Ianona | ~ what's-his-name. [Mal. sianun.] |
| ranona | ~ Mister So-and-so ~ what's-his-name |
| what? | |
| inona | ~ what? |
| whatsoever | |
| na inona na inona | ~ whatsoever |
| what ? | |
| ino | ~ [Sakalava] quoi ? |
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