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Determiner

what

1. (interrogative) Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
   • What colour are you going to use?
2. (indirect, interrogative) Which.
   • I wonder what colour he is going to use.
3. (relative) Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
   • He seems to have lost what sense he had.
4. Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.
   • This shows what beauty there is in nature.
   1. Used to form exclamations indicating that something is remarkable, in either a good or bad way.
      • What nonsense!

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