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you think what

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Singapore/juː ˈθɪŋk ˈwʌt/

you think what phrase: what do you think this is?; do you think this is some kind of […] ?; said in response to an impractical or naïve suggestion.

Phrase

you think what

  1. (Singapore, Singlish, interrogative, sarcastic, rhetorical) What do you think this is?; do you think this is some kind of […] ?; said in response to an impractical or naïve suggestion.
    • — Can book a whole ballroom anot?
      — You think what? Got all the money in the world ah, hah?
    • CMPB looking for something better and more kilat for me, you think what, they put somebody like me here as a counsellor?2011, James Khoo, directed by James Khoo, Hentak Kaki (short film), spoken by 2WO Lee Teck Hong (Michael Hadrievic Chua)

Forms of you think what

alternative formthink what

Origin of you think what

A colloquial interpretation of the phrase what do you think? with reorganized syntax, demonstrating optional wh-fronting in Singlish. Analogous to certain sentence structures in Chinese, e.g., Hokkien 汝儂咧講什物？ /汝侬咧讲什物？ (lír-lâng leh kóng sím-mih?, “what are you all talking about?”), in which the interrogative word 什物 (sím-mih, “what”) remains where it is and does not move to the front of the sentence.

Questions about you think what

What does you think what mean?
You think what means what do you think this is?; do you think this is some kind of […] ?; said in response to an impractical or naïve suggestion.
What part of speech is you think what?
You think what is a phrase.
How do you pronounce you think what?
You think what is pronounced /juː ˈθɪŋk ˈwʌt/ (Singapore).

Words near you think what in the dictionary

  1. you smelt it, you dealt it
  2. you snooze you lose
  3. you tell me
  4. you the birthday
  5. you think
  6. you think what
  7. you understood
  8. you want a cookie
  9. you want a piece of me
  10. you welcome
  11. you were saying

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