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Quattro_cat
17 mar 2021

  • Giapponese
  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)
Domande Inglese (Stati Uniti)

I read the sentence "what you're going to do?", Is this sentence correct? Why isn't it "what are you going to do?"

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beastgin
17 mar 2021

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

You're = you are

"What is/are" is a question phrase.

The "what" in "What you are (verb)" is not a question word. It is a generic noun.

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cyrustorz
17 mar 2021

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

@Quattro_cat Because the “what you’re going to do” part of the sentence is not a question, the question is “have you decided”?
「何をしますか」ではなく、「何をするか決めましたか」ですね。

For example:
“I am interested to see what you’re going to do next.” ← Not a question.
君が次に何をするかは興味深いです。

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jmhk
17 mar 2021

  • Spagnolo (Messico)

In that context, although "what" is indeed within a question, it can be replaced by the phrase "the thing that" because it's not a question word, it's what is known in grammar as a subordinate clause

Have you decided the thing that you're gonna do?

This sentence doesn't sound natural, though, so better use "what"

Quattro_cat
17 mar 2021

  • Giapponese
Oh, I see!
So why isn't "You are'nt going to take any time off at all?" Written in the same image changed to "Are'nt you going to take any time at all?"?
beastgin
17 mar 2021

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

@Quattro_cat Either way is fine.

"Aren't you..." is a standard way to ask the question. But having the ? at the end means that we're phrasing the statement "You aren't..." as a question.

Like 食べない? literally means "not eating?", you don't need to add ですか to make it a question if you raise the tone.

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cyrustorz
17 mar 2021

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

@Quattro_cat

They are both proper questions, but I think there’s also a difference in nuance for English speakers.
“You aren’t going to__?”→しないの？
“Aren’t you going to __?” →(This has more of a nuance that we expected they were going to __, so we are double-checking)

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