što

See also: sto, stó, stò, -sto, -stö, and 'sto

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

štȁ (pronoun only)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis; compare Čakavian čȁ (“what”) (from Proto-Slavic *čь).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃtô/

Adverb

štȍ (Cyrillic spelling што̏)

why (short for zȁšto)
(in comparisons) the, as

što ranije to bolje ― the sooner the better

što brže ― as quickly as possible

Pronoun

štȍ (Cyrillic spelling што̏)

(interrogative) what
(relative) that, what, which

Ako je to točno, mora biti da znaš nešto što ja neznam.
If that is correct, it must be that you know something that I don’t.

Declension

Declension of što

	singular/plural
nominative	štȍ, štȁ
genitive	čèga, čȅg
dative	čèmu
accusative	štȍ, štȁ
vocative	—
locative	čȅm, čèmu
instrumental	čȋm, číme

Synonyms

(Kajkavian): kaj
(Chakavian): ča

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