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| ahoana | 2 what ~ 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?) |
| maninona | 3 what ~ what of it ? what happened ? what's the matter? |
| ndry | 4 what ~ showing surprise or pain; what ? oh ! |
| inona | 5 what? ~ what? |
| aiza no | 6 what ~ by what means? |
| drindra | 7 what happiness! ~ what pleasure! What happiness! |
| ny maha-izy azy | 8 what makes it to be what it is ~ what makes it to be what it is or should be |
| drindra | 9 what pleasure! ~ what pleasure! What happiness! |
| Ianona | 10 what's-his-name ~ what's-his-name. [Mal. sianun.] |
| ranona | 11 what's-his-name ~ what's-his-name |
| na inona na inona | 12 whatsoever ~ whatsoever |
| izany hoe izany | 13 what's to be done ~ well then, since it is so, what's to be done? |
