Sentence nº42849
- belongs to brauliobezerra
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Is this "What is it?" in the sense of "What is this?", or in the sense of "What is wrong?"
And I can confirm Portuguese, Spanish and French mean the same thing. But I guess I adopted this sentence just for linking purposes. Does it feel unnatural? I could change it.
e.g.: Your friend looks worried, and you ask him "What is it?"
In the majority of cases, I feel like this would be the meaning. I don't think we'd have to fix much though. It looks like a lot of the languages here have the right translation :-)
"What" and "it" are both weak/unstressed words, so "is" takes the tonic stress in the sentence. Because "is" is stressed, it can't be contracted.